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Collaborative Editing of Scientific Formulas

Do you want to work collaboratively on scientific formulas? Use the Helmholtz Cloud service HedgeDoc notes. You can render LaTeX mathematical expressions using the $ delimiter.

Here an example with the Fourier Transform that you can directly try in a Hedgedoc note if you have one open:

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$$
\mathcal F(f):\xi \mapsto \hat{f}(\xi) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f(x) e^{-{\rm i}\xi x}\, dx
$$

It will render like this*:

\[\mathcal F(f):\xi \mapsto \hat{f}(\xi) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f(x) e^{-{\rm i}\xi x}\, dx\]

It also works inline if you are writing simpler and not less magnificent formulas like $E = mc^2$: \(E=mc^2\).

The Helmholtz Cloud also offers more comprehensive tools with dedicated text editors for academia like Collabtex and SciFlow, both supporting LaTeX.


*That is because Codebase also uses MathJax, which is behind this feature in HedgeDoc. If you want to check what else HedgeDoc can do, have a look here.