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Speed changes everything.

When your compiler takes 45 seconds, you stop experimenting. When it takes 3, you iterate freely. Textra bundles an optimized TeX Live distribution that compiles locally — a 50-page thesis in under 4 seconds.

thesis.texcompiled 3.2s
pdflatex
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pdflatex x2
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Research Agent
Find papers on transformer efficiency and add the most cited to my bibliography
searchPapers"transformer efficiency"23 results
readFilereferences.bib47 entries
editFilereferences.bib +3 entriesapproved

Added 3 papers and inserted citations:

dao2022flashattention

FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention

3,841
kitaev2020reformer

Reformer: The Efficient Transformer

2,156
child2019sparsetransformer

Generating Long Sequences with Sparse Transformers

1,892
compileProjectthesis.texcompiled 3.1s

Your bibliography should build itself.

The Research Agent searches 225M+ papers, finds the most relevant citations, formats them, and inserts them into your bibliography — all through conversation. Stop copy-pasting BibTeX entries.

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Write with precision.

Citation autocomplete pulls from your .bib files as you type. SyncTeX keeps source and PDF in perfect sync. Hover any math expression to see it rendered instantly. LSP intelligence handles the rest.

SyncTeX · Click to jump between source & PDF
42\cite{|
vaswani2017attentionAttention Is All You Need
devlin2019bertBERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional...
brown2020languageLanguage Models are Few-Shot Learners
E = mc2
Hover any math to preview
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$brew install --cask mactex
$export PATH=/usr/local/texlive/...
$tlmgr install missing-package
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Your research stays yours.

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