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I draw figures for my mathematical lecture notes using Inkscape

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Resurfaced independently across 4 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
6
submitters
6
observed span
2019–2024
peak thread · 97 comments
542 pts
latest 20+ return · 2022-05-01
312 pts

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2007–2026

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I've also read previous article about how the author manage to take lecture note using Vim+Latex (also posted on HN), and that's amazing how author managed to do that. But I'm thinking for people who does not know how to use Vim (arguingly high learning curve) and Latex to take note, what options do they have to take note quickly (with Math symbols/layouts)? You can try out Mathcha[1] which is built to help people without knowing of Latex can easily…

When I started writing papers I was really bullish on tikz. I thought that professional looking papers should have figures that were precise to the mm. But the time it takes to get something useful is just insane. I quickly moved to the vectorial drawing tool I had handy: keynote. It’s really not made for that, but it has enough features that you can quickly use it to do pretty things. I ended up using keynote to do all the…

baby·312-point thread·

Dupicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19768012

vortico·6-point thread·

Cool. Your repos are so popular. The stars range from 300 to 1000, and the forks range from 50 to 200. I wonder what kind of audience you generally get, since they seem quite high for the niche. Side question, I notice that you don't use UTM parameters for your submission link. I wonder if you know about it, and if yes, then why don't you use it? I also gather all my knowledge about this and ask in this…

ooker·3-point thread·

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