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Re:How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using ... by j7ake on Thursday March 21, 2019 @03:52AM (#19449938)
Beautiful notes! But I don't believe those figures are made using LaTeX and Vim... I can't see how you convert keyboard strokes to nice figures shown in the example.
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Re:How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using ... by mathblocks on Thursday March 21, 2019 @06:22AM (#19450626)
From the original post:

> There, I ex­plained my work­flow of tak­ing lec­ture notes in LaTeX using Vim and how I draw fig­ures in Inkscape.

Looks like the author was using Inkscape earlier but may have switched to something else recently. You can draw impressively beautiful diagrams in LaTeX with TikZ although it can be a lot of work to do so with TikZ which would make it difficult for live note taking.

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Re:How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using ... by phosphophyllite on Thursday March 21, 2019 @06:38AM (#19450735)
Probably it's "compose key" feature available on linux, allowing one to type alternative characters via key mnemonics, rather than numeric key codes like on windows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key

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Re:How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using ... by probably_wrong on Thursday March 21, 2019 @04:25AM (#19450104)
I'm not following. What is it exactly that you don't believe? Those figures are exactly the type of figures one gets using LaTeX.
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