I've been using "detexify" since grad school which was a decade ago or so.
It's by far the best tool for LaTeX I've ever used. You just have to draw the symbol and it uses pattern recognition algorithms to suggest the closest LaTeX keyword.
Is there a downloadable dump available, in case I or anyone else don’t want to reveal exactly what symbols we’re typing into our (possibly confidential) documents?
I tried to find nabla (∇) as it is a very common symbol in engineering. Tried 'differential', 'derivative', 'delta', even 'triangle', but didn't get it.
Finally tried 'nabla'. Turns out it's just not there :(
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I'll be using LaTeX over the next few months, and will be improving this page as I do. The project is also open source.
Let me know what you think!
It's by far the best tool for LaTeX I've ever used. You just have to draw the symbol and it uses pattern recognition algorithms to suggest the closest LaTeX keyword.
I felt that 'type and hit enter to copy' would be faster for my workflow, which is why I built this :D
Here is also another useful reference for LaTeX symbols: http://tug.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-lette...
An omission: I searched for "hat" and didn't find any results.
Finally tried 'nabla'. Turns out it's just not there :(
I'll try to import a larger set of symbols soon, to fix the gaps.