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not to spoil the fun, but this is a lot better ;) you don't even have to remember all those pesky names http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html

ah, this is indeed quite neat. thanks for sharing.

I've been using "detexify" since grad school which was a decade ago or so.

It's by far the best tool for LaTeX I've ever used. You just have to draw the symbol and it uses pattern recognition algorithms to suggest the closest LaTeX keyword.

Yep, I've used it. It's amazing! I'm also adding a link to it on my page, so people can find symbols they don't yet know how to describe with text

I felt that 'type and hit enter to copy' would be faster for my workflow, which is why I built this :D

Very neat. Thank you!

I tried to find nabla (∇) as it is a very common symbol in engineering. Tried 'differential', 'derivative', 'delta', even 'triangle', but didn't get it.

Finally tried 'nabla'. Turns out it's just not there :(

Arrows would be good to have too.

Proportional to is missing too. ‘propto’ ∝

Just added it. Thanks.

I'll try to import a larger set of symbols soon, to fix the gaps.

Hello HN.

I'm new to LaTeX. It was taking me a while to lookup common notation, so I took a lot longer (https://xkcd.com/1205), and built a search for it.

I'll be using LaTeX over the next few months, and will be improving this page as I do. The project is also open source.

Let me know what you think!

Not all of the Greek letters seem to be in the database: a search for "Psi" doesn't reveal ... \psi ...

Epsilon is also missing.

Thanks! Adding them right now!

...and done! :)

This is why I dig HN. To the creator: Thank you for creating this!

Thanks! :D This made my day

Is there a downloadable dump available, in case I or anyone else don’t want to reveal exactly what symbols we’re typing into our (possibly confidential) documents?

It seems so: https://github.com/lunaroyster/LaTeX-search

You can run the app on localhost (see github link in sibling comment).

Here is also another useful reference for LaTeX symbols: http://tug.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-lette...

Well, I'll be that guy. Searched for "rho", but it didn't find "varrho"

Neat!

An omission: I searched for "hat" and didn't find any results.

Thanks! Added hats :D

This is definitely cool Why didn’t I think of this

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