I've been doing Zoom meetings where we use live Overleaf to talk through math equations. This is cumbersome at best. I need a tool that I can use to talk with one or two remote mathematicians while we're visualizing and editing equations live.<p>Hand-drawing the equations, like you would do on Zoom's whiteboard, is not great. We all have mouse & keyboard interfaces, and mouse-drawn square-root symbols and subscripts leave a lot to be desired. Also, we copy and paste equations and modify them. The whiteboard interface has a struggle with this as well. The mouse-drawn stuff tends to be too large; we can't fit enough on screen.<p>What tool would you recommend for this scenario? A bonus would be to have something like a mini Desmos calculator on the side, where I can drop (in)equations and get them rendered.
Perhaps try purchasing a digitizer tablet with a stylus (e.g. Wacom's Intuos series) which will allow you to write your equations as you would with an ordinary writing instrument?
lyx [1] is great for live editing of latex .
Set the instant preview Tools>Preferences>Display>Instant Preview if you want automatic latex rendering, although the editor rendering is nice as it is.<p>For something that is more of a calculator, SymPy [2] with sympy.init_printing() would be rendering latex automatically in any Jupyter notebook.<p>Specific tools I created for my own use for leveraging the above is pypad [3] together with calcpy [4] (%load_ext calcpy)<p>[1] LyX <a href="https://www.lyx.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.lyx.org</a><p>[2] SymPy <a href="https://www.sympy.org" rel="nofollow">https://www.sympy.org</a><p>[3] pypad <a href="https://github.com/idanpa/pypad">https://github.com/idanpa/pypad</a><p>[4] calcpy <a href="https://github.com/idanpa/calcpy">https://github.com/idanpa/calcpy</a>