LaTeX Symbols Selector
LSS is a symbol browser to help creating LaTeX documents with many math symbols.
All symbols are grouped into categories and user can copy symbol name to system-wide clipboard (or insert it directly to first running copy of gVIM) by selecting symbol icon from list. Many non-standard (and unsupported in LSS) symbols can be found in the comprehensive LATEX symbol list here
Features
- Built-in 478 LaTeX symbols
- Most of AMS symbols are supported
- Easy integration with gVIM editor
- Selected symbol name can be copied into clipboard for use with your favourite editor
News
2008-04-12: version 0.1.6
- Drag and drop symbols’ names
- Many internal changes
- Added Polish translation
2007-07-01: version 0.1.4
- Ctrl+Enter chooses recently selected symbol and quits LSS
- Spacebar toggles symbols’ names
Screenshots



Requirements
- GTK+ – The GIMP Toolkit library, version >= 2.6
- LibXML 2 library
Download
lss-0.1.6.tar.gz (301 kB) – sha1sum: e3df1b90a6d2fe774230dbfc23be7f5396804b6a
LSS package is available in the following distributions:
- Archlinux
- OpenBSD
- openSUSE
- Zenwalk
Usage
If you want to use LSS with gVIM add following line to your ~/.vimrc file:
autocmd BufWinEnter *.tex imap <F8> <Esc>:silent !lss &<cr>a
Now, you can press <F8> key while editing *.tex file to call LSS and insert name of selected symbol in cursor position. This mapping use <F8> key in insert mode and you can use another shortcut key if you want – for more information check page located here.
Contact
Send comments, patches to <pasp [at] users [dot] sourceforge [dot] net>