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Hi HN, I implemented your feedback: latex.to is an Overleaf alternative that now runs a full Tex Live distribution in the browser. This is done via CheerpX (JIT wasm engine) runnin…

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I made this website to quickly compare editors. You can demo all editors directly on the website and star the ones you prefer. There's also a card game: play your deck's stats agai…

Making it possible to share a deck in my flashcard app https://texeditor.com

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I'm working on the ios version of my flashcard app https://texeditor.com

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Support for bigger group sizes (5 - 8 users) for https://catchup.rocks

In case anyone is looking for an alternative - I've launched https://latex.to here on HN last year. Since then I've added the option to save formulas in your browser via IndexedDB.…

I will design a proper favicon! I think I implemented the current placeholder according to https://stackoverflow.com/a/13416784

Thank you, I wasn't aware of these extensions.

This looks really interesting! I will definitely have a look.

Thank you, those are both very good suggestions I will look into!

I could add a GPT based pdf to latex functionality in the future.

Thank you for your feedback. I've just added the links to both projects in the info modal. I will look into adding HTML and MathML exports in the next version.

KaTeX has a build in MathML feature, but I haven't yet looked into it for rendering. The "Share text" functionality of the website uses KaTeX's MathML feature as an intermediate st…

Thank you for your positive feedback. KaTeX does not support all LaTeX features but initializes very quickly. LaTeX via WebAssembly supports more features but might need longer to …

LaTeX: https://katex.org Image generation: https://github.com/bubkoo/html-to-image

Thank you very much for your feedback, I will look into adding more keyboard buttons like "\sqrt{}"