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Re: Show HN: LaTeX Search – Quickly Lookup LaTeX Notation

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post #6

not to spoil the fun, but this is a lot better ;) you don't even have to remember all those pesky names http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html

Yep, I've used it. It's amazing! I'm also adding a link to it on my page, so people can find symbols they don't yet know how to describe with text

I felt that 'type and hit enter to copy' would be faster for my workflow, which is why I built this :D

Re: Show HN: LaTeX Search – Quickly Lookup LaTeX Notation

#15
post #9

Is there a downloadable dump available, in case I or anyone else don’t want to reveal exactly what symbols we’re typing into our (possibly confidential) documents?

You can run the app on localhost (see github link in sibling comment).

Here is also another useful reference for LaTeX symbols: http://tug.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-lette...

Re: Show HN: LaTeX Search – Quickly Lookup LaTeX Notation

#17

I tried to find nabla (∇) as it is a very common symbol in engineering. Tried 'differential', 'derivative', 'delta', even 'triangle', but didn't get it. Finally tried 'nabla'. Turns out it's just not there :(

Arrows would be good to have too.

Re: Show HN: LaTeX Search – Quickly Lookup LaTeX Notation

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I tried to find nabla (∇) as it is a very common symbol in engineering. Tried 'differential', 'derivative', 'delta', even 'triangle', but didn't get it. Finally tried 'nabla'. Turns out it's just not there :(

Proportional to is missing too. ‘propto’ ∝

Re: Show HN: LaTeX Search – Quickly Lookup LaTeX Notation

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I tried to find nabla (∇) as it is a very common symbol in engineering. Tried 'differential', 'derivative', 'delta', even 'triangle', but didn't get it. Finally tried 'nabla'. Turns out it's just not there :(

Just added it. Thanks.

I'll try to import a larger set of symbols soon, to fix the gaps.

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