diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d0d9273..dfd9bcf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -15,3 +15,4 @@ The available ones are:
 * `leptos`: everything in `rust`, plus wasm target, cargo-leptos,
 leptosfmt, stylance, sass and binaryen.
 * `nix`: for nix-only projects, including nil, nixfmt, statix and deadnix.
+* `latex`: quite empty for now
diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index 763e29e..cb21b67 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@
           path = ./nix;
           description = "Nix-only (or mostly) projects with nil, nixfmt and statix";
         };
+
+        latex = {
+          path = ./latex;
+          description = "For quickly authoring latex docs";
+        };
       };
     }
     // utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem (
diff --git a/latex/flake.nix b/latex/flake.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..38a93ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/latex/flake.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{
+
+  inputs = {
+    nixpkgs.url = "github:nixos/nixpkgs?ref=nixos-unstable";
+    systems.url = "github:nix-systems/x86_64-linux";
+    utils = {
+      url = "github:numtide/flake-utils";
+      inputs.systems.follows = "systems";
+    };
+  };
+
+  outputs = { nixpkgs, utils }:
+  utils.lib.eachDefaultSystem(system:
+  let 
+    pkgs = import nixpkgs { inherit system; };
+  in {
+
+    devShell = with pkgs; mkShell {
+      buildInputs = [texlive.combined.scheme-full];
+    };
+  });
+}
+