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Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX

Hacker News Best 23 June 2026 8h ago
Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX
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Hi all! TikZ is a widely-used LaTeX package for drawing figures in papers. It uses commands like \draw[->] (0,0) -- (1,2); to draw lines, shapes, text, etc. Academics usually code up their figures by hand, so there is lots of twiddling around with the coordinates and recompiling until things look nice. I guess it’s a bit like SVG, but it’s more code than markup, for example it has loops with \fore
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