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AI ToolsHacker News Front Page · June 23, 2026 · 5w ago

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

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 \foreach.I built an open-source WYSIWYG TikZ editor (available for web and desktop) that allows you to ed

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