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Following up from my previous post trying to generate different attractors using Latex: Other experiments using Python, HTML Canvas, SVG, the outputs are not as rich as LaTex/PDF derived. Not sure how but PDF rendering seems to handle overlapping opacity the way ink on paper does, layers look like they accumulate physically rather than being approximated by antialiasing. The result looks like a qualitatively different image: streaky ink like effect as if drawn with sumi inked brush strokes (very aesthetically pleasing IMHO). See the bedhead attractor as an example- top right. Also clean edges where the attractor is sparse, richer toner like density where orbits cluster. Could it be the FP precision of the pdf rendering engine creating richer output when you stack millions of opacity=0.08 objects? Image 2 shows a comparison- left is HTML canvas (seconds to minutes) vs LaTeX on the right (at least 60 minutes) How can this be reproduced with SVG or HTML (which are objectively faster)? submitted by /u/invasionbarbare [link] [comments]

Hey everyone, I’m still learning LaTeX, and I designed this template for my thesis completely from scratch. I’d really appreciate your feedback and suggestions on what I could improve or add to make it look better visually. A quick note: - The template was originally written in French, and I translated it into English for you guys. - Also, everything written inside it is unrelated to my actual major or thesis topic.....it’s just placeholder content for demonstration purposes. Thanks in advance for any advice! submitted by /u/ZedxPro [link] [comments]

Hello, can someone guide to cite in APA in vs code using Zotero? I'm clueless and I don't know how to search this question on Google. Thanks. submitted by /u/jazenteno21 [link] [comments]

I am currently about to write my thesis that I am sure it will surpass 150 pages. As you know overleaf takes a lot of time to compile and process when you work with hundreds of pages. I want to know if there's a substitute for Overleaf that has relatively same features and can support compiling and writing a lot of pages without the need to pay or do something. Thank you in advance submitted by /u/Basic-Courage-8759 [link] [comments]

I’ve tried to contact the developer of MinionMath, Typoma, to purchase a license three times over the last four months and have not received any response. Does anyone know if this developer is still active? Their website appears to have last been updated in 2023. I am interested in using the MinionMath font to make my course materials. Thank you all in advance for reading and for any insight you can provide. submitted by /u/ChemProf67 [link] [comments]

Hello, i am writing a report about my internship and i want free tools that i can use to create diagrams I tried mermaid but I didn't line the design of it too much Any suggestions? submitted by /u/WarthogTop5588 [link] [comments]

I have installed the fontspec and polyglossia packages in MikTex console.. and still i can't type malayalam in texstudio. Please help... I don't have any solution... submitted by /u/rj1879 [link] [comments]

Hi everyone, What tools do you use to convert LaTeX into SVG or PDF? I often need to export LaTeX equations, tables, and sometimes more complex snippets for papers, slides, or design software. I’m looking for something that produces clean output and supports more than just basic equations. Online tools, desktop apps, VS Code workflows, browser extensions, or plugins are all fine. I’d love to hear what works well in practice. Thanks! submitted by /u/CyberpunkMagpie [link] [comments]

Out of \bar, \overbar, \overline, and \wideoverbar, I find that I like \wideoverbar the best. The spacing and thickness just looks "right" when applied to sequences of symbols. However, the vertical spacing is very far off from what I expect when applied to a single character. For example, \wideoverbar{\alpha} is spaced poorly, \wideoverbar{\alpha\alpha} is spaced well, \wideoverbar{\alpha .} is spaced well, but \wideoverbar{\alpha\!.} is spaced poorly. Is there some way to get the better spacing for just \wideoverbar{\alpha}? I am using Lualatex with Unicode math + Libertinus math, if that matters. --- The question has now been posted to the TeX stack exchange. submitted by /u/Disjunction181 [link] [comments]

https://preview.redd.it/8j5xi1uhbp3h1.png?width=929&format=png&auto=webp&s=79cbb874828f02b02454a86634f17cf3b43d1ead I am drafting an article in latex. The journal requires that the figures are tiff or eps. I wanted to see if I could make the text in the figure consistent with the full document. My current workflow is something as follows: Compute the subplots with python and save as svg. the ticks on the colorbars are latex code (e.g. \tiny{$\nicefrac{-\pi}{2}$}). Create a page in Inkscape with the same width as `\textwidth` and import all subplots Arrange and add annotations (this includes the scale, textbox and green arrows) using the same/similar font and font size. Save a copy as eps and compile the latex document. Adjust placement and recompile. This has been a tedious process since the alignment is not always the same in Inkscape and it takes me way too much time. I am starting to believe that I am doing something wrong. Could you please give me some advice or tips to make this process easier? Or is this just annoying? If so, what would be the next best thing to do? I added a screenshot of a figure that I am making, but as you can see it not is not finished yet ( some misalignments and the caption needs to be updated). Thanks in advance. submitted by /u/bjuurn [link] [comments]

I simply want to share this document class with you all and I'd love to hear your thoughts. scribe is a minimalist, opinionated Latex document class and beamer style for academic technical writing and presentations. Link: https://github.com/FedericoBruzzone/scribe submitted by /u/FedericoBruzzone [link] [comments]

Would it be better to use TikZ or like Inkscape for something like this? Is it possible to use TikZ for this? https://preview.redd.it/00sg048scm3h1.png?width=429&format=png&auto=webp&s=5fbd016c12718f63c913ecbdbc00350b94050f87 submitted by /u/Yeeeyee625375 [link] [comments]

I’m exploring an idea and would like feedback from people who actually use LaTeX. A lot of students and researchers still start with messy notes, Word drafts, Google Docs, Markdown, or plain text, then later try to turn everything into a clean academic document. The idea: Upload a rough draft → choose a template/style → get a structured LaTeX project back. Not just “convert text to LaTeX”, but something closer to: proper sections/subsections title/abstract structure references/bibliography placeholders figure/table placement suggestions equation formatting where possible PDF export a checklist of things that still need manual review I know fully automatic LaTeX conversion can become messy very quickly, so I’m trying to figure out where the useful boundary is. Would this be useful for students/researchers, or would serious LaTeX users avoid it? What would make it trustworthy enough to use? submitted by /u/your_stormy [link] [comments]

I've been building a collaborative LaTeX editor over the last week or so, and I wanted to put it in front of people who write a lot of LaTeX, because you'll spot the gaps way faster than I will. I know the obvious question is why not just use Overleaf, and honestly for a lot of people Overleaf is great. I started this partly because I wanted the real-time collaboration and the compiler to behave a specific way, and partly just to see if I could build the thing. so this isn't me claiming it's better, it's more that it's a different take and I want to know where it falls short. right now it does real-time co-editing with CodeMirror, so two people can be in the same document at once. cloud compilation with pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX, live PDF preview, multi-file projects, and version history with PDF snapshots. there's also an AI editing assistant, but I keep it optional and out of the way, because AI-written LaTeX is hit or miss and I didn't want it to be the point of the thing. on the how: I built it on an SDK called DeepSpace, and full disclosure, I work on it, so grain of salt. I actually came to it just for the compiler. I couldn't find a clean API that lets you hit an endpoint and get a compiled PDF back, it was all either self-hosting texlive or services that didn't expose compilation directly. DeepSpace had exactly that. but then I kept running into other pieces I needed already sitting there, the real-time sync for the co-editing, auth and a database so users and documents just worked, file storage for the PDF snapshots, and deploy straight from the command line with no separate services or API keys to wire up. the compile endpoint got me in the door, but honestly it was all the rest of it that made building this solo actually doable. it's free to use right now (500 credit included when you make an account). so for the people here who basically live in LaTeX: what would actually make something like this worth switching to from whatever you use now, or is the honest answer that nothing would? I'd rather hear the real version than the polite one. I'll put the link in a comment submitted by /u/Sure-Replacement-322 [link] [comments]

https://preview.redd.it/843zsukkah3h1.png?width=1456&format=png&auto=webp&s=55e2c861d9224ca0a552ed07f85a08c0318a505c I’ve been working on Tinyleaf, a small local-first TeX editor that launched from the CLI and used through a browser UI. It started from a Docker-based TeX Live backend I originally built for VS Code’s LaTeX Workshop. Over time I moved more of my writing/coding workflow toward CLI tools, and I realized I rarely wanted to open a full IDE just to compile LaTeX and preview the PDF. Tinyleaf is my attempt at a lighter setup: a Python CLI package with no external runtime dependencies, just the standard library. Any Python >= 3.10 environment should work. pip install tinyleaf tinyleaf /path/to/latex-project By default it uses a Dockerized TeX Live environment, so you don’t need to install a full TeX Live distribution or a bunch of Python packages on your system. Your project stays local/offline on your filesystem, but you still get a browser UI with PDF preview, compile logs, file tree, search, outline, Git tools, SyncTeX, etc. You can run it in two modes: point it at one project for a focused editing session run tinyleaf without a path to use the multi-project registry Docs: https://tinyleaf.readthedocs.io GitHub: https://github.com/Oaklight/tinyleaf It’s mostly shaped by dogfooding it in my own day-to-day LaTeX workflow. I’d be curious if this fits how other people write papers/theses locally, and what rough edges stand out. submitted by /u/Oaklight_dp [link] [comments]

Many times in the past I wanted to include videos in my beamer presentations, but anything short of few animated frames can become challenging. Using media9, movie15, or multimedia can sometimes work, but it is not guaranteed to run on any PC. Even if you can setup the PC in advance (e.g. using pympress) it can sometimes fail unexpectedly. In the past I used a workaround by slicing a pdf into pngs, adding them to a PowerPoint presentation and then manually adding the videos. Since vibe coding has gotten so much better I decided to automate the full process so I created beampptx which is open-source on GitHub. The repo is essentially just a single python script. After installing you can simply run: beampptx presentation.tex or beampptx presentation.pdf and it will generate a presentation.pptx file with all slides included as vector graphics. Additionally if you include videos using the movie15 package via \includemovie or using the multimedia package via \movie these will be included in the .pptx file. Note that this only works if you provide the .tex source. This is also useful when you may need to produce .pptx slides for a shared presentation, but you only have latex source. submitted by /u/kocurvik [link] [comments]

A Clifford attractor plotted by iterating two equations across 10 million steps: x(n+1) = sin(a·y) + c·cos(a·x) y(n+1) = sin(b·x) + d·cos(b·y) Each point's position is determined entirely by the previous one and four parameters (a, b, c, d). No randomness — the structure emerges purely from the mathematics. Rendered in LaTeX using LuaLaTeX with a \directlua block to handle the iteration in native Lua floats. Each coordinate is passed back to TikZ and plotted at low opacity — colour intensity reflects visit frequency via log-scale density mapping. Took about an hour to compile on a M4 Pro Max with 48Gb ram. Output is a native vector PDF, converted to PNG via ImageMagick at 600dpi. submitted by /u/invasionbarbare [link] [comments]

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I saw someone upload their design here, and I really liked it. Unfortunately, they disappeared without sharing the LaTeX code or any details about it. Since I’m a beginner in LaTeX, I decided to try recreating the design myself, and this is my first result. If you like it, I can share the full code later. Note: the background with the mathematical symbols, the lions next to the word “Biography”, and the large “B” letter are all images, not native LaTeX elements. submitted by /u/ZedxPro [link] [comments]

I made LaTeXdiff online tool for comparing two .tex files and generating a diff file that you can copy or download. Right now it works for single-file only. → Paste your original and revised LaTeX files then generate the diff file. Please test it with your real paper containing citations, figures, etc. and let me know if something breaks or give error. Thanks - First tool I built and launched myself 🤞 Tool: https://thelatexlab.com/latexdiff-online/ submitted by /u/thelatexlab [link] [comments]

In Overleaf, I’m used to being able to jump directly from the code to the corresponding section in the PDF (Forward Search) and vice versa (Inverse Search) by clicking. I’m having trouble getting this functionality working in VS Code. How can I enable this behavior in LaTeX Workshop? submitted by /u/abhunia [link] [comments]

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Not a mod. But I was hoping to raise awareness that if you post a question that gets an answer then other people also benefit from that exchange. We've all googled a LaTeX question and found an old answer, and been glad it is there. Some people lurk here, picking things up over time. I'm not sure why so many people delete exchanges. There are good reasons to delete things sometimes, but asking for a clarification on a technical point does not seem, at least to me, to be one of them. The only other thing I can think is that those folks think that their question is clogging up the stream. I was hoping with this post to convince them that they are mistaken, and to leave it in place. In particular, if the answerer spends 15 mins on that answer and you delete the question, then you've been not too kind back to the person who was kind to you. submitted by /u/JimH10 [link] [comments]