Taking notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim (2019)

Re:Taking notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim ... by teruakohatu on Sunday November 07, 2021 @07:40PM (#29145068)

I am always in awe of people like you. I have no idea how someone can type \frac{}{} faster than I can draw a horizontal line (while listening to a lecturer), but I believe you.

Meanwhile I use Onenote. I don't have to worry about keeping notes safe, or the stress of trying to type at warpspeed. I would go with a Remarkable tablet but now with subscription pricing it's a non starter.

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Re:Taking notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim ... by tobmlt on Sunday November 07, 2021 @08:15PM (#29145249)

Latex specific ide \frac and auto fill. You can for sure get speedy with practice!

Those beautiful graphs now… I ended up using secondary programs to gen images (pdf or whatever) of graphs and such for latex to bring in the usual way. Not as good!

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Re:Taking notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim ... by vitus on Sunday November 07, 2021 @09:27PM (#29145635)

My recollection is that the main speed advantage lay in being able to copy-paste the previous line when working through a derivation.

I live-LaTeXed notes for a couple of years in undergrad but eventually went back to pen + paper (approximately all my assignments continued to be typeset, though).

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