Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:04:41 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Ond=C5=99ej_Majerech?= <oxyd.oxyd@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: display and manipulate math symbols? Message-ID: <f60d361f1002091204u1c7dc5d0ob12fbe47aa8976ca@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100209202709.afb45d04.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20100209044004.GA73416@thought.org> <20100209202709.afb45d04.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 9 February 2010 20:27, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > As you intendedly state that you're not searching for a > solution in the field of typesetting - where LaTeX comes > to mind immediately - I could imagine that you can do it > the hard way. > > First, see the symbols here: > > http://web.ift.uib.no/Fysisk/Teori/KURS/TeX/symALL.html > > Split the images into individual ones, and then use a > graphics suite, such as Gimp or OpenOffice Draw, to drag > them around the screen and combine a formula from them. > > Surely, you would be massively faster doing it with LaTeX, > but there's no mouse involved. :-) There is also this site: http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html . It allows you to draw a mathematical symbol -- with your mouse -- and it will guess how you write that in LaTeX. As I guess the main reason for wanting to move symbols around visually is so that you don't have to remember tons of TeX sequences, this could be rather helpful. ~ Ondra
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