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Show HN: LaTeX Search – Quickly Lookup LaTeX Notation

#1

Post by itsarnavb » Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 5:31 PM UTC

Show HN: LaTeX Search – Quickly Lookup LaTeX Notation
latexsearch.arnavbansal.dev

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

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Post by itsarnavb » Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 5:43 PM UTC

Hello HN.

I'm new to LaTeX. It was taking me a while to lookup common notation, so I took a lot longer (https://xkcd.com/1205), and built a search for it.

I'll be using LaTeX over the next few months, and will be improving this page as I do. The project is also open source.

Let me know what you think!

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

#3

Post by Ives » Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 6:39 PM UTC

Not all of the Greek letters seem to be in the database: a search for "Psi" doesn't reveal ... \psi ...

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

#4

Post by Hydraulix989 » Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 6:51 PM UTC

Ives wrote: post #3

Not all of the Greek letters seem to be in the database: a search for "Psi" doesn't reveal ... \psi ...

Epsilon is also missing.

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

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Post by itsarnavb » Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 6:51 PM UTC

Ives wrote: post #3

Not all of the Greek letters seem to be in the database: a search for "Psi" doesn't reveal ... \psi ...

Thanks! Adding them right now!

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

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Post by fock » Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 6:55 PM UTC

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

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

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Post by sangel » Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 6:57 PM UTC

fock wrote: 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

ah, this is indeed quite neat. thanks for sharing.

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

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Post by wenc » Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 7:00 PM UTC

fock wrote: 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

I've been using "detexify" since grad school which was a decade ago or so.

It's by far the best tool for LaTeX I've ever used. You just have to draw the symbol and it uses pattern recognition algorithms to suggest the closest LaTeX keyword.

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

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Post by teddyh » Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 7:05 PM UTC

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?

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

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Post by gervase » Sun, Sep 15, 2019, 7:06 PM UTC

teddyh wrote: 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?

It seems so: https://github.com/lunaroyster/LaTeX-search