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#1 goldenratiophi

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Posted 25 October 2004 - 09:52 PM

A suggestion that I make on every message board I go to:

ADD TeX/LaTeX!!!!!!!

For the Hall of Intellectuals, Homework Discussion, and any other board that uses math, it is really helpful because ASCII math isn't exactly the easiest thing to read...

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#2 Ykkrosh

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Posted 25 October 2004 - 10:37 PM

Lines like "E = V I_0 \int_0^{d \over f} (1-e^{-t / k}) dt" aren't exactly the easiest things to write either, but I agree that it's much better than the ASCII alternative (and not too ugly when you get used to it). I've heard of Texvc (part of MediaWiki), which can convert TeX equations into PNGs, and I think I used it successfully a while ago, though I'm not sure whether the WFG server is likely to have OCaml installed; are there any other similar programs?

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#3 MarkT

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Posted 26 October 2004 - 09:44 PM

Hehe. Now we've five people on the Tex petition, Tim.

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#4 goldenratiophi

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Posted 03 November 2004 - 11:50 PM

AoPS uses LaTeXRender

#5 Ykkrosh

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Posted 07 November 2004 - 07:24 PM

An alternative option would be to support MathML (example, Mozilla info, TeX->MathML converter). And as a bonus, it doesn't work in IE

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#6 Dnas

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Posted 07 November 2004 - 08:21 PM

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And as a bonus, it doesn't work in IE

In that case, let's go for it!

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#7 goldenratiophi

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Posted 07 November 2004 - 09:14 PM

Dnas, on Nov 7 2004, 08:21 PM, said:

In that case, let's go for it!

I'll second this.

#8 King Tutankhamun

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Posted 07 November 2004 - 11:17 PM

A tex font would be neat, but if it only worked in FF that would not be fair to everyone, including me who use IE.

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Posted 08 November 2004 - 05:13 PM

Ykkrosh, on Nov 7 2004, 08:24 PM, said:

And as a bonus, it doesn't work in IE

I don't even know what it is but let's get it anyway!

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#10 MarkT

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Posted 08 November 2004 - 05:19 PM

King Tutankhamun, on Nov 7 2004, 11:17 PM, said:

A tex font would be neat, but if it only worked in FF that would not be fair to everyone, including me who use IE.

Why? If you choose to use IE over FF you're denying yourself features, that's just the way it is. IE is behind the times. Why should we have to be?

Exceptions made for those who /have/ to use IE (or something else - Lynx, say) for acccessibility or language - but there can't be many such here.

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#11 goldenratiophi

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Posted 08 November 2004 - 08:05 PM

MarkT, on Nov 8 2004, 05:19 PM, said:

Exceptions made for those who /have/ to use IE (or something else - Lynx, say) for acccessibility or language - but there can't be many such here.

Links pwnz Lynx!

In Links, I think that if you go to a message board with TeX in it, it will actually show the TeX code since it can't show images.

#12 Dnas

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Posted 08 November 2004 - 10:40 PM

Unless the Tex thingy is directly encoded into the browser, I would expect that that's the message board's code that shows the code instead if Links is used. Just a guess though.

#13 pinkisacolor

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Posted 03 February 2005 - 12:20 AM

Whats LaTex?

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