Ask HN: What LaTeX editor do you use? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What LaTeX editor do you use?

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Post by ironlake » Fri, Aug 26, 2022, 1:54 PM UTC

vim

Re: Ask HN: What LaTeX editor do you use?

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Post by daly » Fri, Aug 26, 2022, 2:05 PM UTC

Emacs in fundamental-mode.

Re: Ask HN: What LaTeX editor do you use?

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Post by epakai » Sat, Aug 27, 2022, 4:46 PM UTC

Vim, but I gave up writing LaTeX after college. I just write orgmode markup (still in Vim) that exports to LaTeX subfiles. There is still the single main LaTeX document, but it is mostly packages and settings.

Re: Ask HN: What LaTeX editor do you use?

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Post by kickaha » Sat, Aug 27, 2022, 9:45 PM UTC

Slightly surprised nobody has mentioned org-mode under Emacs. It’s a slightly orthogonal use-case, not strictly editing native LaTeX. But it does a million things well, especially organizing documents of various lengths, and then exports very nice LaTeX. Not just that you could subsequently tweak, but allowing includion of arbitrary LaTeX that also gets exported.

For many use-cases it can be much more efficient to step back and let the LaTeX get written for you.

Re: Ask HN: What LaTeX editor do you use?

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Post by Myrmornis » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 2:39 PM UTC

https://github.com/dandavison/xenops

I’m also the author of it. It’s an emacs mode that automatically renders mathematical content as you type and displays it inline in the buffer as SVGs which render crisply on high resolution screens. It doesn’t handle all the different math delimiters yet.