xenops VS KeenWrite

Compare xenops vs KeenWrite and see what are their differences.

xenops

An editing environment for LaTeX mathematical documents (by dandavison)

KeenWrite

Free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and math. (by DaveJarvis)
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xenops

Posts with mentions or reviews of xenops. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-06.
  • Emacs AUCTeX no preview
    1 project | /r/emacs | 24 Jul 2023
  • Is emacs the answer?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 6 May 2023
    For some really nice LaTeX previews whilst writing, I would recommend Xenops. It will display pretty much all LaTeX equations, environments, tables, figures etc for your whilst you are writing. I use it all the time and love it.https://github.com/dandavison/xenops
  • Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
    149 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2023
    I was studying maths as a hobby and made myself a LaTeX editing environment in Emacs with inline rendering of mathematical content: https://github.com/dandavison/xenops

    A handful of other people use it I think but I made it for myself and don't have time to maintain it when I'm not studying maths.

  • Async Start-Process `org-preview-latex-default-process` (Doom Emacs)
    1 project | /r/emacs | 30 Dec 2022
    just use https://github.com/dandavison/xenops
  • Looking for a neovim GUI with image previews
    5 projects | /r/neovim | 9 Aug 2022
    Hi, I really like this package for emacs that allows to preview latex and images directly in the document (not in an extra window): https://github.com/dandavison/xenops.
  • Preview LaTeX equations on *.tex files
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 1 May 2022
    im surprised noone has mentioned https://github.com/dandavison/xenops which does exactly what you're looking for
  • Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
    56 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Feb 2022
    https://github.com/dandavison/xenops

    Mathematical LaTeX editing in Emacs with automatic inline rendering of math, tables, and TiKZ diagrams.

    It's hard to imagine this getting popular because (a) it's Emacs, (b) LaTeX is a pain and Overleaf is pretty nice, (c) I think it would require the Auctex team to want to adopt my implementation, and combine their expertise and code to parse LaTeX math delimiters as reliably as auctex does, (d) I only use and develop Xenops when I'm studying maths, which is not at all now I have a real job again. But Xenops is nice to use.

  • I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Nov 2021
    Plug: I recently created a new LaTeX editing environment for Emacs with automatic inline rendering of math, TikZ diagrams, and tables:

    https://github.com/dandavison/xenops

    It creates plain LaTeX files that can be shared with non-Emacs users, but also works with org-mode. Math preview images are SVG by default and are crisp on high res / retina screens.

  • How do I integrate wolframscript?
    1 project | /r/emacs | 4 Oct 2021
    Xenops is a nice package for editing LaTeX and it allows integration with computer algebra systems. I looked at the code and it seems to allow me to use wolframscript (which I think is the free version of the wolfram engine) but whenever I try to run the code in the example, it returns the error no org-babel-execute function for mathematica. When I put (requireob-mathematica)` into the init.el, it says there is no such file or directory. How can I integrate this free version of the wolfram engine?
  • JupyterLab LaTeX – live-editing of LaTeX documents in JupyterLab
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 May 2021
    Plug: If you're an Emacs user, I've written an emacs LaTeX editing environment with automatic live rendering of LaTeX math, tables, and TikZ images. The images are rendered asynchronously using emacs-aio.

    https://github.com/dandavison/xenops

KeenWrite

Posts with mentions or reviews of KeenWrite. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-16.
  • Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
    68 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2023
    KeenWrite is my free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown editor that can produce beautifully typeset PDFs. I started working on it years ago to help write a novel that has a complex timeline and I couldn't find a text editor that would allow me to integrate a character sheet with the story itself.

    https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite

    Tutorials:

    * https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9...

    Here's what I mean by using variables directly:

    * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFCqe3A5dFg

    CommonMark doesn't propose a standard for bibliographic references. Would anyone find the editor more appealing if it had cross-references and citations?

  • Documentation as Code for Cloud Using PlantUML
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2023
    My cross-platform desktop text editor, KeenWrite, allows users to define variables in an external YAML file. The editor calls out to Kroki[1] to convert text-based diagrams to SVG. The diagrams can reference variables and are rendered using EchoSVG[2].

    KeenWrite[3] can produce PDF documentation from Markdown documents that has PlantUML diagrams with elements stored in an external, machine-readable file. Here are screenshots showing variables on the left, diagram text in the middle, and a real-time render on the right:

    * https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/main/...

    * https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/main/...

    KeenWrite supports all diagrams offered by Kroki, which includes "diagram-plantuml".

    [1]: https://kroki.io/

    [2]: https://github.com/css4j/echosvg/

    [3]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite

  • On why Markdown is not a good, or even a half-decent, markup language
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jul 2023
  • MdBook – Create book from Markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust
    30 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jun 2023
  • KeenWrite 3.3.2: MermaidJS diagrams (with caveat)
    1 project | /r/Markdown | 24 Jun 2023
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jun 2023
  • Interactive CommonMark Tutorial
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jun 2023
    Although not interactive, I've created a video series that shows advanced usage of Markdown. Namely R, external variables, diagrams, math, annotations, and a different approach to metadata:

    * https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9...

    Tutorial 4 shows basic Markdown:

    * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNbGSiRzx-0

    The top-right of each video shows keyboard and mouse clicks to help follow along.[1] My desktop text editor, KeenWrite[2], is used in the tutorials.

    [1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/kmcaster

    [2]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite

  • “Exit Traps” Can Make Your Bash Scripts Way More Robust and Reliable
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jun 2023
    https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/main/scripts/bu...

    My template script provides a way to make user-friendly shell scripts. In a script that uses the template, you define the dependencies and their sources:

        DEPENDENCIES=(
  • EchoSVG: SVG rasterizer library supporting level 4 selectors (Apache 2)
    4 projects | /r/java | 8 Jun 2023
    I didn't create the fork, nor am I affiliated with the project. I use it in my text editor, KeenWrite to rasterize SVG.
  • Millions of dollars in time wasted making papers fit journal guidelines
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jun 2023
    KeenWrite Themes[1] are instructions that tell ConTeXt how to typeset XHTML documents (content) into PDF files (presentation). I made a tutorial that shows how my FOSS desktop text editor, KeenWrite[3], allows users to write in Markdown to typeset a document against a particular theme.

    Before it can be used for scientific papers, it needs cross-references, which, unfortunately, aren't part of the CommonMark specification.

    I posit that the vast majority of LaTeX users don't grok how to separate content from presentation. When I asked a question on TeX.SE about how to adjust the line spacing between enumerated items (spanning a couple dozen enumerated lists), the vast majority of people voted for the answer of using `\itemsep0em` to tweak each list ... individually.[4] The correct answer, IMO, is to fix the problem globally, and not waste time tweaking individual lists.

    [1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes

    [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QpX70O5S30

    [3]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite

    [4]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6081/reduce-space-be...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing xenops and KeenWrite you can also consider the following projects:

zenburn-emacs - The Zenburn colour theme ported to Emacs

markdown-preview.nvim - markdown preview plugin for (neo)vim

org-fragtog - Automatically toggle Org mode LaTeX fragment previews as the cursor enters and exits them

marktext - 📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.

notes - Notes about TeXmacs

typst - A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.

ShareLaTex - A web-based collaborative LaTeX editor

vim-markdown - Markdown Vim Mode

JupyterLab - JupyterLab computational environment.

Zettlr - Your One-Stop Publication Workbench

wikiref - A web extension that makes extracting, editing, and exporting Wikipedia references easy!

kroki - Creates diagrams from textual descriptions!