You have to tediously retype everything.Īfter a couple of months of complaining, I managed to find a solution for the first two problems using Emacs and a bunch of mods. You cannot just select and copy the LaTeX from the resources you want to use. Seeing the code instead of the actual symbols can disturb the austere mathematical mind. Typing LaTeX commands for math symbols takes too much time: To summarize, I had three main problems for which I’ll present solutions during this article. Short of emailing the author, there was no way to get the source code for a math expression. Worst, in the myriad of symbols, backslashes, and dollar signs, it was easy to make silly mistakes that would inevitably come to hunt me in the near future.Īnother common source of grief was having to retype the LaTeX for a particular problem we choose from a PDF or book.
Every single week I cursed my destiny writing every single character for every single LaTeX expression for every single function, integral, matrix, etc. Years ago I was part of a group responsible for writing solutions for the local Mathematical Olympiad practicing problems. Time required to set up: 10 minutes besides the time required to read the article. Objective: To be able to write LaTeX symbols as fast as you can type.
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