xenops VS MathUnicode

Compare xenops vs MathUnicode and see what are their differences.

xenops

An editing environment for LaTeX mathematical documents (by dandavison)

MathUnicode

Unicode greek letters and math symbols for LaTeX (by gjulianm)
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xenops MathUnicode
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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

MathUnicode

Posts with mentions or reviews of MathUnicode. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-07.
  • I'm able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Nov 2021
    An important part missing in this is to add symbols to your keyboard layout. Instead of typing \alpha, just type α. To type \cap, write ∩. I used a StackOverflow answer [1] to build a key layout [2] for my Spanish mac keyboard, but this should be easily replicated for other systems and languages

    1: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/110042/entering-unic...

    2: https://github.com/gjulianm/MathUnicode

What are some alternatives?

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

zenburn-emacs - The Zenburn colour theme ported to Emacs

dotfiles - Collection of my custom vim themes and snippets

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

KeenWrite - Free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and math.

notes - Notes about TeXmacs

ShareLaTex - A web-based collaborative LaTeX editor

JupyterLab - JupyterLab computational environment.

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

fvim - Cross platform Neovim front-end UI, built with F# + Avalonia

static-marks - Shareable bookmarks

emmet-mode - emmet's support for emacs.

texfrag - Emacs package for previewing LaTeX fragments such as in doxygen comments.