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Re:Show HN: Mathcha – Online Mathematics Editor by dbranes on Sunday August 13, 2017 @09:47AM (#15002876)
The diagramming tools look promising, great work!

I never felt like I needed a WYSIWYG for Latex. But I deifnitely need a WYSIWYG for tikz[0]. For example, the tikz code for a simple diagram [1] is essentially incomprehensible. So in light of this:

1. I'm having trouble finding an image (especially vector format) export feature, do you have it?

2. Feature request: export diagrams to tikz code.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGF/TikZ

[1] http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/labeled-chain/

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Re:Show HN: Mathcha – Online Mathematics Editor by IshKebab on Sunday August 13, 2017 @11:57AM (#15003392)
> I deifnitely need a WYSIWYG for tikz

I just use IPE. It's a nice GUI diagram editor that can save as PDF (as in, the PDF contains the IPE data). Far better than faffing around with tikz.

http://ipe.otfried.org/

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Re:Show HN: Mathcha – Online Mathematics Editor by buiducnha on Sunday August 13, 2017 @09:59AM (#15002920)
1. You can export diagram as Image (PNG), by selecting Diagram itself (not item in Diagram), and click "Save as Image" on toolbar (resolution will be doubled as normal). There is no Vector Format Export.

2. Will have a look at TikZ format

Thanks

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Re:Show HN: Mathcha – Online Mathematics Editor by jimhefferon on Sunday August 13, 2017 @12:00PM (#15003403)
> 2. Feature request: export diagrams to tikz code.

Just in case you are unaware, there are many GUI's that export to TikZ. See https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/24235/what-you-see-i... and http://www.texample.net/tikz/resources/ for instance.

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