Detexify: draw a symbol to find the corresponding TeX command

Posted by cemerick on Monday August 16, 2010 @11:05AM
from the detexify.kirelabs.org dept.

http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html

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Re:Detexify: draw a symbol to find the corresponding TeX com... by sasvari on Monday August 16, 2010 @02:26PM (#1608677)

I am using detexify for quite some time now, saved me time and nerves on countless occassions. I hated it to dig out symbol declerations on and on again.

Nice!

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Re:Detexify: draw a symbol to find the corresponding TeX com... by trimber on Monday August 16, 2010 @01:20PM (#1608412)

There is also free Android and Iphone versions available in the market/App store.

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Re:Detexify: draw a symbol to find the corresponding TeX com... by underflow_ on Monday August 16, 2010 @05:53PM (#1609430)

For me, it failed to identify either alpha or beta. Not that I care, since I can type the symbols faster than I can take my fingers off the keyboard to mess around with a pointing device.

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Re:Detexify: draw a symbol to find the corresponding TeX com... by mitcheme on Monday August 16, 2010 @07:03PM (#1609601)

I managed to draw my 'alpha' backwards (whups) and it still worked OK for me. Maybe it's just a penmanship-related quirk?

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Re:Detexify: draw a symbol to find the corresponding TeX com... by tjpick on Monday August 16, 2010 @06:59PM (#1609587)

I drew a beta using the mouse with my wrong hand, and it worked ok.

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Re:Detexify: draw a symbol to find the corresponding TeX com... by sz on Monday August 16, 2010 @07:17PM (#1609638)

I got all excited and then it interpreted my volume integral (∰) as a left angle bracket. :(

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Re:Detexify: draw a symbol to find the corresponding TeX com... by ars on Monday August 16, 2010 @07:32PM (#1609680)

I need one of these for unicode.

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