Timeline for How to look up a symbol or identify a letter from a math alphabet or other character?
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| Oct 10, 2021 at 17:51 | comment | added | FriendlyFire | Detexify is not simply working. I myself prefer mathcha.io . | |
| Sep 19, 2020 at 22:23 | comment | added | inavda | That's too bad :( maybe make a post and see if anyone is able to identify it? | |
| Sep 18, 2020 at 20:57 | comment | added | LaTeXereXeTaL | @inavda Of course, repeatedly. It simply doesn't work. | |
| Sep 18, 2020 at 4:50 | comment | added | inavda | @LaTeXereXeTaL , have you tried martin-thoma.de/write-math? | |
| Sep 7, 2020 at 23:52 | comment | added | LaTeXereXeTaL | Given the disdain for this question, what other options are available after trying (and failing) with Detexify, LaTeX Font Catalog, Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List, typography identification sites, and general Googling (up to about two hours of cumulative time thus far) to identify one character? (I was going to ask on Meta, but the question is hated there too. Seems rather a dead end.) | |
| S Apr 10, 2019 at 16:30 | history | suggested | Marian | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
add shapecatcher
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:35 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://tex.stackexchange.com/ with https://tex.stackexchange.com/
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| May 20, 2015 at 16:15 | history | edited | darthbith | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarify that Detexify is a web software, not local
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| Mar 21, 2015 at 3:32 | comment | added | hpekristiansen |
I could not make Detexify recognize my drawn \curvearrowright. I did a Google search for "Latex curved arrow" and found what I was looking for on a random page. My point is that Google is your friend, and that it could be considered as a fourth method.
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| Jul 17, 2014 at 7:30 | comment | added | Clément | Note to oneself: when it is in a more advanced level, think to speak of http://martin-thoma.de/write-math/. | |
| May 8, 2014 at 18:23 | comment | added | Henri Menke | I don't know the current state, but Detexify has been mining bitcoins using a Javascript implemented bitcoin miner. (Source: blog.fefe.de/?ts=b31bb8ad) | |
| Sep 10, 2013 at 0:08 | history | edited | Werner♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Elaborated on searchability. http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/132453/typing-following-notation-in-latex#comment299028_132453
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| Jun 18, 2013 at 22:05 | history | edited | doncherry | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added bold and standard links
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| Jun 18, 2013 at 17:22 | history | edited | Niel de Beaudrap | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added screenshot for Detexify, added list formatting
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| Sep 2, 2012 at 20:06 | comment | added | Tom Bombadil |
@DavidPoole: For Wikipedia articles, try clicking the [edit] button. It will show you the source, for math it is almost the same as LaTeX. It's a nice way to find out certain things, and also usefull for copying entire formulas ;)
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| S Jul 8, 2012 at 16:58 | history | suggested | Speravir | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
some addition for MiKTeX (compare my comment)
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| Jul 1, 2012 at 23:37 | history | edited | Caramdir | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 9 characters in body
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| Jul 1, 2012 at 22:20 | history | edited | Caramdir | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
texdoc, unicode-math
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| Oct 31, 2011 at 18:24 | comment | added | David Poole | Detexify just led me to lambda. I struggled to find the meaning of "upside down V" for hours last night. | |
| Oct 21, 2011 at 6:25 | comment | added | Jake |
It's worth pointing out that the Select from the complete list! link in the results list will display the symbols list ordered by score, so it's more useful than the intimidating term complete list might suggest.
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| May 31, 2011 at 19:49 | comment | added | Tara | Detexify is particularly useful if you get it on a device with a touch screen (there are Android/iPhone apps for it) -- personally, I find it rather difficult to draw with my mouse, but finger works fine :) | |
| Jul 29, 2010 at 3:32 | history | edited | Rebekah | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
deleted 4 characters in body
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| Jul 27, 2010 at 21:04 | vote | accept | machinaut | ||
| Jul 26, 2010 at 19:38 | comment | added | Joseph Wright♦ | Yup, Detexify has become the best way to do this | |
| Jul 26, 2010 at 19:32 | history | answered | Rebekah | CC BY-SA 2.5 |