Is there a latex document writer?

[epkid08]

Sort of a like Word except implements latex?

 

[Studiot]

I use MathType, which is good but expensive.

http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathtype/trial.asp

The main issues are that I can't include diagrams or tables using it.

 

[VantagePoint72]

When you say "implements latex", do you mean just the equations like here on PF? Because LaTeX is actually a full mark-up language for typesetting documents, so you don't need a word processor at all once you get the hang of it.

 

[MATLABdude]

If you want something WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get--like most word processor applications) you can use LyX, which acts as a front-end to LaTeX:
http://www.lyx.org/

 

[kreil]

I use the TeXnicCenter/MiKTeX combo on my windows machine. I wrote my thesis with it and highly recommend it.

 

[DrDu]

Of course you can use word to write Latex. Just save it as a txt file :-)
Seriously speaking, one of the advantages of Latex is that you are in fact programming your document using a simple text file. If you get used to a good editor like emacs, vim, etc, you have mighty tools available to help you, e.g. regex search and replace, column wise editing, macros for inserting commands, references etc.