A survival guide for the 21st century researcher
Using HTML5 features, this is the kind of obvious tool that makes symbol lookup faster than doing it by hand.
Just draw the symbol in the box and up comes the LaTeX code, and the package name that contains it.
[...] 18, 2010 by Saravanan Thirumuruganathan 1. Detexify2 – LaTeX symbol classifier A neat webpage where you draw a symbol in it and it will tell you the latex symbol. Some thing I [...]
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Bio: Jose Quesada wanted to be a matador, an acrobatic pilot, or a painter, but found those activities not demanding enough, so he chose an academic career. He secretly hopes to orchestrate a system that produces papers without any human intervention (particularly, his).
By the way (o LaTeX), a promising tool:
http://docs.latexlab.org/
A LaTeX compiler online, using Google power. Impressive. Only lacking shared edition and bibliography.