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Re: How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim

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Post by cben » Sat, Mar 23, 2019, 10:59 PM UTC

trombonechamp wrote: post #216

miki123211 wrote: post #49

I use LaTeX for notetaking as a blind person because that's the only way to show my notes to sighted people. Nothing else comes even close. Ascimath would be much better and that's what I'd recommend for most people, unless you're required to send PDF documents and often offline.

Thanks for the ascimath reference. Do you know of any similar technologies for writing equations in a simpler and more readable form than latex? I've never seen ascimath before but I wish I had because I think I partially reinvented the wheel. I wrote some extensions to Pandoc (and an associated emacs major-mode) for scientific note-taking, with a main portion being a "simplified latex" for writing equations in a mor…

eqn (part of troff) from 1974, predating TeX, had a very decent syntax! It's not as complete as TeX, and the layout quality is worse, and I wouldn't want to touch the rest of troff syntax. So not really practical, but good inspiration.

Open/LibreOffice math formulas use a syntax that's clearly inspired by it. Unfortunately it's very lacking in documentation.

Another important question is are you looking for presentational or semantic math? For presentational fine tuning I'm afraid nothing can beat the flexibility of TeX combined with a huge body of Q&A (on stack exchange and elsewhere)...

Re: How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim

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Post by kkarakk » Mon, Mar 25, 2019, 9:51 AM UTC

acqq wrote: post #54

kkarakk wrote: post #44

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onenote can transcribe in real time and save the audio recording as well... you can even save notes at particular timestamps so you can mark something you didn't understand for later. all of these things are solved problems

Note: Europe: the continent where most of the lectures are still not in English. And where are many languages. Not to mention the accents and the dialects in the same non-English language. I also doubt you are aware how seriously distorted the result of the speech to text conversion would be for a non-professional recording of any non-trivial lecture given in English (e.g. domain specific terms).

yes it was totally my mistake to assume a comment on an english speaking american site would be in the context of american english. also one note picks up domain specific terms just fine in STEM fields...

also remember how i said it records audio and logs in real time? yeah, just listen back to it and correct the one or two words it garbles. works just fine. people want to complain not use the solutions that exist. i'm sure writing in latex is trivial and doesn't have you googling issues every 2 hours lol

Re: How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim

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Post by oarabbus_ » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 8:58 PM UTC

quanticle wrote: post #219

oarabbus_ wrote: post #208

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Research shows handwritten notes to generally be far superior to typed notes for memory and retention https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret... So while there are certainly some people who are better with digital notes it is absolutely not " pointless to agree or disagree."

Do they control for handwriting? It's hard to learn from handwritten notes if your handwriting is illegible, especially at speed.

it's the act of writing the notes physically which is helpful