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Detexify: LaTeX handwritten symbol recognition (2009)
- lgreiv 7y agoDaniel is a bright guy and was always fun to work with. Great to see that this project of his keeps getting recognition even years after its creation.
- johannesboyne 7y agoHehe... hi Lars, long time no "see" ;-) Yes, he is and I was also very happy to see the project getting mentioned here! I used it myself and was always impressed about it!
- p11y 7y agoWhat is this, class reunion? :D Cheers guys - padde
- janbechstein 7y agoDefinitely class reunion :D
- danishkirel 7y agoOmg I just created an account to reply... ;)
- JohnHammersley 7y agoDetexify is amazing! It's one of the most popular tips when we give tutorials or workshops on LaTeX :)
- andrepd 7y agoFirefox shows 344 visits to this page :) Thanks for saving me the trouble to awkwardly describe the symbol I in order to google it.
- giu 7y agoExcellent tool! Used it heavily while writing my lecture summaries during my studies. Also, interesting to know: the backend was re-written in Haskell at one time; it gets mentioned in Daniel's thesis [0] http://danielkirs.ch/thesis.pdf http://danielkirs.ch/thesis.pdf
- progval 7y agoSame. It only failed me once, in a logic lecture. I complained out loud, and the lecturer kindly answered the command is \parr
- melling 7y agoDo many people use LaTex for notes? I’ve considered using it for my notes on my iPhone/iPad. At the moment, I’m using Markdown but for a few things, LaTex would be better.
- BeetleB 7y agoDoing your notes fully in LaTeX would be hell without some convenience macros, etc. Yet I'm sure plenty swear by it. I use org mode + LaTeX. You can enter LaTeX equations in org mode. This combination works really well.
- JadeNB 7y ago> Doing your notes fully in LaTeX would be hell without some convenience macros, etc. Part of doing your notes in LaTeX is setting up a healthy suite of convenience macros—or did you mean non-LaTeX macros?
- ygra 7y agoI've written notes during the lecture at the same speed as the lecturer with Word 2007 in the last year I had math in uni. This worked surprisingly well since Word's math typesetting requires a lot fewer \ and {} than LaTeX and you immediately see what your current equation looks like, eliminating a lot of guesses around proper bracketing, etc. With pure LaTeX I think I couldn't have done it, despite being somewhat proficient with the language. (I've scribbled diagrams and other images by hand and done them properly at home, but the text and math parts went fairly well in real time.)
- pier25 7y agoThe service seems to be down... I've used Mathpix in the past for converting math formulas into Latex with great success. https://mathpix.com/ https://mathpix.com/
- rvz 7y agoGreat LaTeX tool but oh dear: "Your connection to this site is not secure" You probably need to cover the "I want to use this site without anyone MITMing me" use-case with Let's Encrypt, but you probably already knew that.
- wordtex 7y agoOh the faggot doesn't even use secure connections, fucking faggots my niggers.
- JadeNB 7y agoWhat information is one providing that should be private?
- jraph 7y agoAs always, encryption everywhere even for not private information avoids showing you want to hide something when you do have a private interaction. Https also makes it more difficult for someone in the middle to temper with the contents, e.g. adding malware.
- oefrha 7y ago“Detexify” should probably be added to the title. I thought it would be something new and was wondering what this would solve that Detexify couldn’t. Detexify is a trusty tool I’ve taken for granted for almost a decade. Saved me a lot of searching countless times. (Apparently I can’t recognize the domain, though.)
- dang 7y agoAdded. Thanks!
- amandeepspdhr 7y agoGreat project
- etaioinshrdlu 7y agoI don't get it. Where are the neural networks?
- dang 7y agoA thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11155978 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11155978 A bit from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6344210 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6344210 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3251762 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3251762 2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1884950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1884950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1607964 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1607964 Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=700043 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=700043
- pvorb 7y agoThis has saved me many hours of searching for LaTeX symbols when I was in University.
- Sniffnoy 7y agoMy question is, where's the unicode equivalent of this? :)
- KMnO4 7y agoGoogle (Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc) actually has this built in. It’s under the “insert symbol” menu item