[HN Gopher] LaTeX Input for Impatient Scholars
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LaTeX Input for Impatient Scholars
Author : karthink
Score : 58 points
Date : 2021-11-06 17:10 UTC (1 days ago)
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| CJefferson wrote:
| This is an interesting article, with some nice packages.
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| However, just in case anyone is starting out in LaTeX, I've been
| involved in over 100 papers written in LaTeX, and wrote my
| thesis, and it is incredibly rare that I've found the speed at
| which I can edit LaTeX in an advanced way was my limiting factor.
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| Nowadays I often use overleaf, which has an incredibly simplistic
| editor, but makes multi-person editing so easy I find it worth
| it.
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| The one 'avanced feature' I do find really useful is finding
| 'jump to this point in the PDF' from your editor, and 'jump to
| this point in the LaTeX' back from your PDF viewer back to the
| editor.
| sigg3 wrote:
| What do you think of TexLive?
| sigg3 wrote:
| Damn it, I meant TexStudio.
| CJefferson wrote:
| I've used it, found it works well.
|
| In general when I'm writing latex, personally I spend most
| of my time writing and editing text, so any reasonable
| editor will do.
| balsam wrote:
| > 'jump to this point in the PDF' from your editor, and 'jump
| to this point in the LaTeX' back from your PDF viewer back to
| the editor.
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| That sounds really cool. Can you give me a link or at least the
| name of a piece of software with this feature? Is Overleaf it?
| Is there an offline piece of software with such a feature?
| Thanks!
| iflp wrote:
| Overleaf and VSCode (with LaTeX workshop) support this.
| mixedmath wrote:
| I have this set up with vim and evince as well. It's very
| handy.
| balsam wrote:
| Just vim and evince? No synctex as suggested (thanks guys!)
|
| Found a nice SO thread explaining the gist of it:
| https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/118489/what-
| exactly-...
| techphys_91 wrote:
| I believe this functionality is provided by SyncTeX. I'm sure
| it can be used in other editors, but it can be accessed from
| the right click menu in TeXstudio.
| diffeomorphism wrote:
| That is a standard latex feature called synctex. Pretty much
| any editor does that.
| jfk13 wrote:
| Quite a few TeX-oriented editors support something like this;
| a couple that I've used personally are TeXShop (macOS only),
| TeXworks (cross-platform). Searching for "SyncTeX" suggests
| that others such as TeXnicCenter and TeXStudio also support
| it.
| smegcicle wrote:
| texworks from a regular miktex install seems to support it
| via SyncTeX
| universa1 wrote:
| Latextools through some other means in sublime text can do
| this as well, both on windows and linux
| iflp wrote:
| This is interesting and follows the line of [1].
|
| Personally I find it more comfortable to use TeXmacs for
| quick/throwaway notes, and macros in longer documents for better
| readability.
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| [1]: https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/
| thangalin wrote:
| LaTeX is often written having content and presentation logic
| intertwined. In contrast, ConTeXt employs the concept of "setups"
| that make keeping the two aspects of a document distinct [0].
| Part 8 of my Typesetting Markdown series [1] shows how to use
| annotations to write a poem in plain text, then subsequently
| format it using ConTeXt.
|
| In many cases, authors need only basic TeX, which can be rendered
| by LaTeX, ConTeXt, and other TeX-based typesetting solutions. My
| desktop text editor, KeenWrite, provides such basic TeX rendering
| in real-time. See the screenshots [2] for examples of inline
| math, variables, and applying different themes to PDF files based
| on a single source document.
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| [0]: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/
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| [1]: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-
| markdow...
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| [2]:
| https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/scr...
| gtpedrosa wrote:
| Haven't read the whole article yet, but the state of latex
| editing in emacs diagram caught my attention. Anyone has a clue
| what software was used to create it? Found the color schemes and
| hyperlinks pretty neat.
| [deleted]
| named-user wrote:
| I wouldn't bother. Fire up MS Word and use your journal's
| provided template.
| CJefferson wrote:
| Slightly extended, learn whatever your field / journal uses.
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| Many A.I. or maths conferences won't provide a Word template,
| only LaTeX. Other conferences and journals I've been involved
| with are Word only. Trying to fight against the default
| generally isn't worth the pain.
| salamandersauce wrote:
| And then spend twice the time formatting equations correctly
| and dealing with things that require workarounds because Word
| only handles a tiny subset of what LaTeX and LaTeX packages can
| do? No thanks.
| s1291 wrote:
| Could you provide an example where you need to spend twice
| the time to correctly format equations in MS Word?
| salamandersauce wrote:
| There is no easy way to get Word to automatically right
| align equation numbers and number equations you have to
| fiddle with invisible tables and shove a reference in the
| right side, there's no equivalent to the "bm" LaTeX package
| available so instead of just typing "\bm{\phi}" I have to
| type the whole equation go back and then bold and italicize
| the phi.
| faustlast wrote:
| for some people it makes things easier. Otherwise they would
| not use it.
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