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Re: Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX

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Post by DominikPeters »

sorenjan wrote: post #21

Looks really nice. You might consider adding some presets to make it easier to get started, like some common neural net architectures and other use cases for TikZ.

Good idea. There is File > Open Example, but it could be extended for sure. On desktop you can even directly open an arXiv paper!

Re: Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX

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Post by DominikPeters »

master-lincoln wrote: post #8

As a student I really wanted something like this. Thanks for making it open source. My theoretical computer science prof happened to be Till Tantau the inventor of TikZ. An awesome communicator too.

Schleswig-Holsteiners are everywhere :) Till Tantau also started the beamer package for making LaTeX presentations. Both beamer and tikz are very important contributions to science communication.

Re: Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX

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Post by DominikPeters »

delta_p_delta_x wrote: post #16

This is superb. Will you consider adding support for pgfplots[1]? When I was a student I was long considering writing a native application for real-time TikZing. [1]: https://ctan.org/pkg/pgfplots?lang=en

I think pgfplots should in principle be possible. I've postponed it thus far because pgfplots is GPL licensed, while the editor is MIT licensed, so I would need to distribute pgfplots support as a separate add-on. But in due course, putting in add-on infrastructure could make sense, because it would also allow adding support for stuff like tikzcd and CircuiTikZ (or tikzpingus!).

Re: Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX

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Post by e2e8 »

DominikPeters wrote: post #20
emil-lp wrote: post #17

Here's what I would need: the ability to position five nodes in a circular fashion, so that they are evenly spaced.

Intriguing thought. Of course by writing code it can be done \foreach \i in {1,...,5} { \node[circle, draw] (n\i) at ({90 - 72*(\i-1)}:1cm) {$\i$}; } but I'm not sure how to expose that as a UI in a nice way (maybe: if something uses polar coordinates and the user holds shift, then during drag the radius stays fixed, and I nudge towards even angular spacing + multiples of 15 degrees?)

That sounds like the array modifier in Blender

Re: Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX

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Post by DominikPeters »

j2kun wrote: post #19

Neat! I also enjoyed https://q.uiver.app/ by https://github.com/varkor which is a bit more specialized.

Yes, there are several editors for more specialized things. Other nice examples: https://tikzit.github.io/ and https://www.circuit2tikz.tf.fau.de/designer/ and https://tikzcd.yichuanshen.de/
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