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For papers and theses
Chalkline turns a rough model sketch into a figure a journal accepts: real maths in the labels, the exact column width at print resolution, sharp vector files and a colour check before you submit. Everything runs in your browser, offline.
Type LaTeX between dollar signs in a box, an arrow label or a note, and it is typeset on the spot. Fractions, sums with limits, hats, vectors, matrices and cases all work.
$\mathcal{L} = -\sum_i y_i \log \hat{y}_i$ for a loss$\operatorname{softmax}(QK^T/\sqrt{d_k})V$ for attentionPick IEEE one or two columns, ACM, Springer LNCS, Elsevier, Nature, A4 text width or a thesis page. Chalkline exports at that exact width at 300 or 600 DPI and writes the resolution into the PNG, so Word and LaTeX place it at the right size.
Preview the board in greyscale, as a black and white printer sees it, and as people with red green or blue yellow colour blindness see it. Chalkline warns when two colours turn into the same grey, and one switch swaps in the Okabe and Ito colour blind safe palette.
Write Input(224x224x3) -> Conv(64, 3x3) -> ReLU -> MaxPool -> Dense(10) and get a drawn network with tensor blocks sized by channels, neuron layers and operator symbols. Branches and residual connections work with names.
Questions
Yes. Type maths between dollar signs in any label, for example $E = mc^2$ or $\frac{a}{b}$. Chalkline typesets it on the board and keeps it in PNG, SVG, PDF and TikZ exports.
Open the Figure tab or Export, choose IEEE one column (3.5 inches) or two columns (7.16 inches) and 300 or 600 DPI. The PDF page and the PNG are made at exactly that width.
Yes. The vector PDF keeps lines sharp at any zoom and text selectable and searchable. Scripts the standard PDF fonts lack, such as Hindi, are placed as sharp pictures.
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