LaTeX | Chris Aldrich

Bookmarked Mathcha - Online Math Editor (mathcha.io)

a fast way to write and share mathematics

Arun Debray (web.ma.utexas.edu)

I LATEXed up lecture notes for many of the classes I have taken; feel free to read through them or use them to review. If you find a mistake or typo, please let me know. If you want to look over the .tex source for any of these notes, please send me an email.

A great set of LaTeXed notes from a variety of coursework.

via Rama Kunapuli.

👓 Craft beautiful equations in Word with LaTeX | Nature

Read Craft beautiful equations in Word with LaTeX (Nature)

Manufacturers are ditching equation editors in word-processing software in favour of the LaTeX typesetting language. Here’s how to get started.

Read How I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim (castel.dev)

A while back I answered a question on Quora: Can people actually keep up with note-taking in Mathematics lectures with LaTeX . There, I explained…

This is awesome though I’ve also heard of cases in which students use shared Google docs to collaboratively take notes like this as well.

👓 LaTeXiT | chachatelier.fr

Bookmarked LaTeXiT (chachatelier.fr)

Should LaTeXiT be categorized, it would be an equation editor. This is not the plain truth, since LaTeXiT is "simply" a graphical interface above a LaTeX engine. However, its large set of features is a reason to see it as an editor; this is the goal in fact.

An Edward Tufte-inspired LaTeX class for producing handouts, papers, and books

Bookmarked Tufte-LaTeX (tufte-latex.github.io)

A Tufte-inspired LaTeX class for producing handouts, papers, and books

One of those times that I love to hate: when you’re doing some good writing work, but then get sidetracked when you find an Edward Tufte template in $\LaTeX$ for a book.

Typesetting geekery gets me every time.

👓 Where do I place my own .sty or .cls files, to make them available to all my .tex files? | TeX StackExchange

Read Where do I place my own .sty or .cls files, to make them available to all my .tex files? (tex.stackexchange.com)

I know how to define a package or a class, but how do I make it available (to myself) at all times? Say I have the package file commonstuff.sty (or myprettyclass.cls), that I want to be able to in...

Missing some files in my installation. I’ll be updating the installation first is the better way to go though….

MyScript MathPad for LaTeX and Livescribe

Bookmarked MyScript MathPad for LaTeX (myscript.com)

MyScript MathPad is a mathematic expression demonstration that lets you handwrite your equations or mathematical expressions on your screen and have them rendered into their digital equivalent for easy sharing. Render complex mathematical expressions easily using your handwriting with no constraints. The result can be shared as an image or as a LaTeX* or MathML* string for integration in your documents.

This looks like something I could integrate into my workflow.

Mendeley integration is here! Import your Mendeley reference library into Overleaf

Liked Mendeley integration is here! Import your Mendeley reference library into Overleaf (overleaf.com)

You can now import your reference library directly from Mendeley to Overleaf, to make it easy to manage your references and citations in your projects

Overview

With my studies in category theory trundling along, I thought I’d take moment to share some general resources for typesetting commutative diagrams in $\LaTeX$ . I’ll outline below some of the better resources and recommendations I’ve found, most by much more dedicated and serious users than I. Following that I’ll list a few resources, articles, and writings on some of the more common packages that I’ve seen mentioned.

Naturally, just reading through some of the 20+ page user guides to some of these packages can be quite daunting, much less wading through the sheer number that exist. Hopefully this one-stop-shop meta-overview will help others save some time trying to figure out what they’re looking for.

Feruglio Summary

Gabriel Valiente Feruglio has a nice overview article naming all the primary packages with some compare/contrast information. One will notice it was from 1994, however, and misses a few of the more modern packages including TikZ. His list includes: AMS; Barr (diagxy); Borceux; Gurari; Reynolds; Rose (XY-pic); Smith (Arrow); Spivak; Svensson (kuvio); Taylor (diagrams); and Van Zandt (PSTricks). He lists them alphabetically and gives brief overviews of some of the functionality of each.

Feruglio, Gabriel Valiente. Typesetting Commutative Diagrams. TUGboat, Volume 15 (1994), No. 4

Milne Summary

J.S. Milne has a fantastic one-page quick overview description of several available packages with some very good practical advise to users depending on the level of their needs. He also provides a nice list of eight of the most commonly used packages including: array (LaTeX); amscd (AMS); DCpic (Quaresma); diagrams (Taylor); kuvio (Svensson); tikz (Tantau); xymatrix (Rose); and diagxy (Barr). It’s far less formal than Feruglio, but is also much more modern. I also found it a bit more helpful for trying to narrow down one or more packages with which to play around.

Milne, J.S. Guide to Commutative Diagram Packages.

Spivak Pseudo-recommendations

David Spivak, the author of Category Theory for the Sciences, seems to prefer XY-pic, diagXY, and TikZ based on his website from which he links to guides to each of these.

Resources for some of the “Bigger” Packages

Based on the recommendations given in several of the resources above, I’ve narrowed the field a bit to some of the better sounding packages. I’ve provided links to the packages with some of the literature supporting them.

Diagxy: Michael Barr

CTAN Package
Brief four page introduction
Barr, Michael. A new diagram package. (Version 2011-06-18)

XY-pic: Kristoffer Rose & Ross Moore

CTAN Package
XY-pic User Guide
Blaga, Paul A. Commutative Diagrams with XY-pic I. Kernel Functions and Arrows. The PracTEX Journal, Draft of November 16, 2006.

Diagrams: Paul Taylor

TikZ-CD: Florêncio Neves

CTAN Package
TikZ-CD Package Documentation: {tikzcd} Commutative diagrams with TikZ. Version 0.9e; October 30, 2014.
Lenders, Felix. Commutative Diagrams using TikZ. April 12, 2012.

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