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UX improvements #243

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UX improvements #243

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@ktaletsk ktaletsk commented Sep 11, 2024

This PR is the reintroduction of the #192 initially implemented by Team 1318, a Georgia Tech Junior Design team in the 2021-2022 school year:

It was brought up to date and prepared for merging by @akisaini.

Changes

  • Toolbar menu at the top of the document with shortcuts to common LaTeX editing tasks
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    • Preview Button (easier way to trigger LaTeX compilation; currently triggered by clicking 'Show LaTeX Preview' in the context menu)
    • Typeface Modifier GUI (subscript, superscript, bold, italic, underlined)
    • Text Layout Customization GUI: This feature allows the user to format a paragraphs layout (alignment for example)
    • Add plot (from list of canned tikzplots templates): simple function plot, plot from file, scatter plot, bar graphs, contour plot, parametric plot
    • Table Creation GUI (select number of rows and columns to create a table with dummy data)
    • Bullet Point and Numbered List
  • Error Log Filtering options

  • Main menu section with additional helpers

    • Constant Menu
    • Symbol Menu
  • Tab-autocomplete for common LaTeX tags

User research

The added features were selected as a result of the user research amongst NIH community.

  • People from the following fields were surveyed:
    • Software Engineering
    • Data Science
    • Cheminformatics
    • Virology
    • Drug discovery
    • Bioinformatics
    • Student

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  • What was the most difficult about using LaTeX?

    • The lack of the good editor
    • Memorizing settings that has not been used for long time
    • Layout
    • Formatting of things that aren't text
    • Sharing docs with colleagues
    • Lack of rich features present in MS word
    • Table generation
    • Graph creation
  • Features that users would like to see within JupyterLab-LaTeX?

    • Table generator
    • Equation generation
    • Literate programming like environment (e.g., cweb)
    • Real time collaboration
    • GUI for tables and figures would be amazing
    • Easy/simple simultaneous render of formatted document and what is being typed
    • Robust templates for journals to "auto apply" pre-review AND post-review formatting required

ladyron and others added 2 commits September 6, 2024 15:34
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Binder 👈 Launch a Binder on branch jupyterlab/jupyterlab-latex/ux-improvements

@ktaletsk ktaletsk marked this pull request as ready for review September 11, 2024 21:56
@ktaletsk ktaletsk merged commit 9043f30 into master Sep 27, 2024
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jtpio commented Sep 27, 2024

Sorry for the late review @ktaletsk.

It looks great, thanks for working on this!

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No worries @jtpio !

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