{"id":10098,"date":"2021-11-06T12:31:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T16:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10098"},"modified":"2021-11-06T12:38:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T16:38:22","slug":"taking-math-notes-with-latex-in-emacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=10098","title":{"rendered":"Taking Math Notes With LaTeX in Emacs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two and a half years ago, I wrote about Gilles Castel\u2019s astounding ability to take math notes at speed using LaTeX and Vim<\/a>. As someone who once came perilously close to being lapped on a three panel blackboard by a Math professor, I found this amazing yet Castel says he can keep up with his professors. A year ago, I wrote about a post on reddit by karthink<\/a> that gave a quick overview of how he did the same thing with Emacs.<\/p>\n

Now Karthink has long post<\/a> that goes into detail on how he does it. If you\u2019re like me, you probably think that most of the magic involves yasnippet<\/a> but karthink uses yasnippet almost as an afterthought. All the heavy lifting is done by AUCTeX<\/a> and CDLaTeX<\/a>. Karthink presents his methods in three stages: AUCTeX, CDLaTeX, and yasnippet. You can, he says, get a long way just with AUCTeX.<\/p>\n

CDLaTeX provides a series of shortcut keys that can really speed things up. For example, `a<\/code> gives you \u03b1, `><\/code> gives \u2192, ``R<\/code> gives \\Re<\/code>, and ```s<\/code> gives \\sin<\/code>. Most of these are mnemonic and in any event, CDLaTeX will pop up a which-key<\/a>-like help screen if you delay for a second.
\nFinally, he uses yasnippet for those things not covered by AUCTeX and CDLaTeX. He has a pointer to his snippets but says you should make your own specialized for your particular needs.<\/p>\n

Happily, my days of taking class notes are over but it\u2019s still nice to know how to speed up entering mathematical notation while I\u2019m in Emacs or Org-mode. If you\u2019re a student taking Math classes, you should take a look at Karthink\u2019s post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two and a half years ago, I wrote about Gilles Castel\u2019s astounding ability to take math notes at speed using LaTeX and Vim. As someone who once came perilously close to being lapped on a three panel blackboard by a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,4],"class_list":["post-10098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-emacs","tag-org-mode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10100,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10098\/revisions\/10100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}