dandavison/xenops
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An editing environment for LaTeX mathematical documents
10 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2020-09-14 · latest 2025-09-28
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…made this WYSIWYG-ish LaTeX editing environment for Emacs which renders things in-line as you type: https://github.com/dandavison/xenops Does anything like that exist for Typst? I.e. something where you edit the same document that is…
comment by Myrmornis · 2025-09-28 · in Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement -
…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…
comment by Myrmornis · 2023-04-28 · in Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? -
https://github.com/dandavison/xenops I’m also the author of it. It’s an emacs mode that automatically renders mathematical content as you type and displays it inline in the buffer as SVGs which render crisply on high resolution screens. It…
comment by Myrmornis · 2022-09-02 · in Ask HN: What LaTeX editor do you use? -
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…
comment by Myrmornis · 2022-02-11 · in Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project? -
…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…
comment by Myrmornis · 2021-11-07 · in Taking notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim (2019) -
…of LaTeX math, tables, and TikZ images. The images are rendered asynchronously using emacs-aio. https://github.com/dandavison/xenops
comment by Myrmornis · 2021-05-18 · in JupyterLab LaTeX – live-editing of LaTeX documents in JupyterLab -
…project which renders all math in LaTeX documents to SVG preview images automatically as you type: https://github.com/dandavison/xenops I've used it a lot and I believe the experience is better than preview-latex in auctex (that's the only…
comment by Myrmornis · 2021-05-03 · in TeXmacs and the Art of Mathematical Writing -
…Coincidentally, I just posted a Show HN on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24821474 https://github.com/dandavison/xenops Xenops is intended to be used with auctex. The main feature that Xenops brings is that math, tables, and TikZ…
comment by Myrmornis · 2020-10-18 · in AUCTeX 12.3 -
Plug: I've been working on a new LaTeX-editing minor mode to use in conjunction with auctex: https://github.com/dandavison/xenops It's basically a replacement for preview-latex: it renders math/TikZ/table fragments automatically and…
comment by Myrmornis · 2020-09-14 · in Org-mode 9.4 is out. Can you help?