Mathcha tutorial

Mathcha tutorial

Mathcha is an online editor designed for creating and editing mathematical documents. It supports various mathematical notation and diagram types, making it useful for students, teachers, and professionals working with complex equations and figures. You can use it to create detailed mathematical content efficiently.

Link to Mathcha: link

Log-in

First, you need to create an account. You can do this by using a GitHub, Google, Twitter, or Facebook account, or you can use your own email.

Once you have created your account, you need to log in, and you will see the following page:

Then you need to click in the green button Open editor.

Create a document

Once you open the editor, you will see a screen like the one below.

In the upper left panel, you’ll find buttons for creating a new document and a file folder.

Below these buttons is where all your documents will be organized, with folders and documents/figures appearing in this area. In the lower left panel, you’ll find shared documents.

Let’s say we create a folder called project1 and want to create a new document for a figure. First, select the project1 folder, which will be highlighted in blue. Then, click the new document button (upper left panel), name your file, and click OK.

Drawing area

Once you have created a document, click on the name of your document (left panel, you will see it highlighted in blue) and you will see a white area in the center of the screen.

Mathcha has several tools for different types of documents. We will focus only on how to create figures. Click on the second option in the left panel of the gray area, the one with a square, triangle, and circle, and then click on the “drawing area” option.

Once we create the drawing area, we will see a gray grid. Everything we want to draw should be within this area. On the left, we will see several tools:

• LaTeX formatted text

• Normal text

• Lines, arrows, curves

• Polygons and other shapes

• Grids, plots, etc.

• Thick arrows

• Plots

• Images

• Drawing pencil

Grid

Curves

Poligons

Arrows

Thikness

LaTeX

Export figures