Show HN: How I wrote a LaTeX paper without writing any LaTeX

Re:Show HN: How I wrote a LaTeX paper without writing any LaTeX by ralph_r on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @04:11PM (#41113629)

Glad to hear you're interesting in trying it. For your use case, I'm curious, are you referring to general use annotations (ex. highlighting, text boxes, commenting, drawing), or are you specifically interested in scientific annotations (ex. Adding an annotation with math or code in it)?

Regardless, it's definitely a realistic feature to have. I'm thinking of it as a block right now, perhaps a file block, that can be resized and annotated freely. Maybe annotations can be mini, floating, moveable and resizable editors. Would that make a big difference for you?

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Re:Show HN: How I wrote a LaTeX paper without writing any LaTeX by jopizio on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @06:36AM (#41117920)

I'm mostly interested in general use annotations. Basically, I want the ability to quickly circle a feature in a plot and point to it with an arrow associated with a text box with some explanation. I think the mini, floating blocks as you described could work well as long as they can be grouped and "locked" in place so they don't accidently get pushed away. OneNote has the ability to add such general annotations very easily, but there's no ability to lock the positions, and so as a result notebooks can easily become a jumbled mess.

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Re:Show HN: How I wrote a LaTeX paper without writing any LaTeX by ralph_r on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @08:33PM (#41125044)

Sounds good, I'll work on adding comments and annotations (that can lock in place) and update you when that happens.

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