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Ask HN: Best way to include LaTeX math in presentation slides?
2 points by john-titor on April 15, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
For my work I often have to present scientific topics to an audience. This includes a fair amount of notation in form of LaTeX math that has to go into the presentation slides.

So far, I have not found a good solution to efficiently include LaTeX in any presentation software.

There are plugins, but they rely on a local LaTeX distribution which, let's be honest, is always a pain to manage.

These days, I find myself using a browser app to render equations, then download and import the math as SVG or PNG. This somewhat works: The problem is that I have yet to find a web app that supports both, a wide range of commands (like https://katex.org/) or the export to SVG (like https://viereck.ch/latex-to-svg/).

Any suggestions how to optimize my workflow?



Have you considered using HTML based slides? That way the LaTeX math gets rendered at presentation time using MathJaX or KaTeX, so you don't need a local LaTeX. There are many options, my personal recommendation is Quarto (https://quarto.org/). Now when I think of it, I believe that Quarto actually may come with its own LaTeX distribution included (TinyTeX), so you should be able to create even pdf presentations with it without installing separate local LaTeX. I do not know for sure, one of the advantages of using Linux as your operating system is that there is no need to manage a LaTeX distribution, it's just there.




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