Stop memorising LaTeX commands: the symbol, package, table and figure pickers

What's the command for ⊗? Is it \varnothing or \emptyset for the slashed zero you want? Which package gives you \SI{9.81}{m/s^2}? Every LaTeX user has a browser tab open for questions like these.

Luzbase puts the answers inside the editor.

Symbol picker: 471 symbols, searchable by meaning

Click Insert symbol in the toolbar. The symbols are grouped into 18 categories, including Greek, Operators, Arrows, Calculus, Linear Algebra, Chemistry, Physics and Accents.

The search box understands what symbols are called, not just their commands. Type angle, alpha or integral and you get the right symbol. Click it and the command goes in at your cursor.

It's quicker than drawing the symbol in an online recogniser, and you learn the command as you go. After the fifth time you insert \otimes, you'll just type it.

Package picker: 100 curated packages

Click Add LaTeX package to open the Add LaTeX Package dialog. It lists 100 commonly used packages, chosen for academic writing, each with a short description. Search by name, description or tag: units, tables, code listings, colour.

Choose a package and it's added to your preamble. You can remove one from the same dialog, which helps when you inherit a preamble with 40 packages and aren't sure what half of them do.

Table builder

Click Insert table. Pick the size from the grid, tick Header row if you want one, and Luzbase writes a correctly structured table environment with caption and label.

Then, in Visual mode, click into the table to edit it like a table:

• insert and delete rows and columns
• set column alignment
• switch borders between All borders, Booktabs rules and No borders
• move the caption above, below, or remove it

Edit table source jumps to the LaTeX when you need something the toolbar doesn't do, like \multicolumn.

Figure builder

Click Insert figure and fill in Filename, Width (it defaults to 0.8\linewidth), Caption and Label. You get a complete figure environment with the graphicx package loaded for you.

Faster still: drag an image into the editor, or paste one from your clipboard. Luzbase uploads it and inserts the figure. In Visual mode, the figure toolbar sets placement (Automatic (htbp), Here (h) and the rest), width, and Span columns for two-column layouts.

Learning by doing

None of these hide LaTeX from you. Every picker writes standard LaTeX you can read and edit. They just remove the trip to the search engine. Students learn faster this way, and experienced users stop losing time on syntax they look up twice a year.

Start writing free.