TikZ is the go-to LaTeX package for drawing academic figures. Trouble is, it requires manual coordinate coding and lots of recompiling until things look right. Enter a new open-source WYSIWYG editor — built almost entirely by the Codex AI coding agent. Drag and resize elements visually while the source code syncs in real time. Edit either the canvas or the code; both stay synchronized. The editor also bundles converters from SVG, PowerPoint, and other formats, plus a LaTeX color picker. According to Hacker News, it's the first editor to combine live source-code and WYSIWYG views at once.

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