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Hello HN.

I'm new to LaTeX. It was taking me a while to lookup common notation, so I took a lot longer (https://xkcd.com/1205), and built a search for it.

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!

Not all of the Greek letters seem to be in the database: a search for "Psi" doesn't reveal ... \psi ...
not to spoil the fun, but this is a lot better ;) you don't even have to remember all those pesky names http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
ah, this is indeed quite neat. thanks for sharing.
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.

Yep, I've used it. It's amazing! I'm also adding a link to it on my page, so people can find symbols they don't yet know how to describe with text

I felt that 'type and hit enter to copy' would be faster for my workflow, which is why I built this :D

Neat!

An omission: I searched for "hat" and didn't find any results.

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 :(

Proportional to is missing too. ‘propto’ ∝
Just added it. Thanks.

I'll try to import a larger set of symbols soon, to fix the gaps.

Well, I'll be that guy. Searched for "rho", but it didn't find "varrho"
This is why I dig HN. To the creator: Thank you for creating this!
This is definitely cool Why didn’t I think of this