LIVE: LaTex Interactive Visual Editing

TL;DR

LIVE introduces an innovative approach to creating interactive LaTeX graphic items, enhancing the visual and informational richness of academic papers through dynamic, explorable figures and tables.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel design method for interactive LaTeX graphics, enabling more engaging and informative visual representations in academic writing.

Findings

Developed interactive graphic items called Gitems.

Automated analysis of paper relationships using LIVE.

Open source implementation available.

Abstract

LaTex coding is one of the main methods of writing an academic paper. When writing a paper, abundant proper visual or graphic components will represent more information volume than the textual data. However, most of the implementation of LaTex graphic items are designed as static items that have some weaknesses in representing more informative figures or tables with an interactive reading experience. To address this problem, we propose LIVE, a novel design methods idea to design interactive LaTex graphic items. To make a lucid representation of the main idea of LIVE, we designed several novels representing implementations that are interactive and enough explanation for the basic level principles. Using LIVE can design more graphic items, which we call the Gitems, and easily and automatically get the relationship of the mutual application of a specific range of papers, which will add more vitality and performance factors into writing of traditional papers especially the review papers. For vividly representing the functions of LIVE, we use the papers from NeRF as the example reference papers. The code of the implementation project is open source.