Find your Latex symbol

When writing a paper or thesis in Latex, I have many times had to search through long lists of symbols names to find out how one write ## insert random greek or math symbol ##.  CTAN has the COMPREHENSIVE LATEX SYMBOL LIST, which has everything you'll ever need (and much more). 

In Swedish there is a shorter guide by Einar Steingrimsson (symbols.pdf) which is easier to read. But still, it requires searching through long lists.

The solution to the problem is Detexify²
This lovely web service lets you draw your symbol in a window and an algorithm then suggest the best matches. I tried it with a few symbols and it seems to work very well. Worth a try at least!


(thanks to Saad, T. "LaTeX Symbols - Detexify". Weblog entry from Please Make A Note. http://pleasemakeanote.blogspot.com/2010/07/latex-symbols-detexify.html)