[Ducky Havok]

There's a program called MathType that's pretty useful.
Free Trial

[BigMoosie]

Cheers! I remember seeing that advertised in NewScientist, I'm gonna check it out.

[stevem]

I agree with Dave that the most sensible thing to do is install LaTeX on your system. But if you really don't want to do that you'll need a LaTeX emulator like mimeTeX.

Assuming that you are using Windows, then download mimetex.exe from there. You can then call mimetex from the DOS command line, but the simplest thing to do is write a batch file:

@echo off

mimetex -f mimetemp.tex -e mimetemp.gif

Save your latex code in mimetemp.tex, run the batch file and the image will appear as mimetemp.gif.

[stevem]

And if you want a free equation editor to generate the LaTeX code for you, have a look at TeXAide

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

You can also use OpenOffice, as it is a word processor and offers a math module.

[muhali3]

[Silencer]

whoops

[CanadaAotS]

just testing this out...



Derivative:









now hopefully that will work out fine...
Also if any math is wrong please tell me lol

the language to use is easy just going through it all is hard lol

[stevem]

It would be easier to say


Hence


So

[Hiya]

[Kedas]

What's wrong why can't I see a formula here?
This is generated with matlab 6.5, command Latex(S).
[LaTeX Error: String is too long (1140, limit 1000)]

-\sin(\left({\it Patm}\,t-\arctan({\frac {{\it Pstart}}{\sqrt {-{{\it Pstart}}^{2}+{{\it Pin}}^{2}}}})\sqrt {{\it Kv}}{\it Volume}\right){\frac {1}{\sqrt {{\it Kv}}}}{{\it Volume}}^{-1}){\it Pin}\,\cos(\left({\it Patm}\,t-\arctan({\frac {{\it Pstart}}{\sqrt {-{{\it Pstart}}^{2}+{{\it Pin}}^{2}}}})\sqrt {{\it Kv}}{\it Volume}\right){\frac {1}{\sqrt {{\it Kv}}}}{{\it Volume}}^{-1})\sqrt {{{\it Pin}}^{2}{\it Kv}\,\sqrt {-{{\it Pstart}}^{2}+{{\it Pin}}^{2}}\left (-2\,\sqrt {-{{\it Pstart}}^{2}+{{\it Pin}}^{2}}{{\it Pstart}}^{2}\left (\cos({\frac {{\it Patm}\,t}{\sqrt {{\it Kv}}{\it Volume}}})\right )^{2}+\sqrt {-{{\it Pstart}}^{2}+{{\it Pin}}^{2}}{{\it Pin}}^{2}\left (\cos({\frac {{\it Patm}\,t}{\sqrt {{\it Kv}}{\it Volume}}})\right )^{2}-2\,{{\it Pstart}}^{3}\sin({\frac {{\it Patm}\,t}{\sqrt {{\it Kv}}{\it Volume}}})\cos({\frac {{\it Patm}\,t}{\sqrt {{\it Kv}}{\it Volume}}})+2\,{\it Pstart}\,\sin({\frac {{\it Patm}\,t}{\sqrt {{\it Kv}}{\it Volume}}}){{\it Pin}}^{2}\cos({\frac {{\it Patm}\,t}{\sqrt {{\it Kv}}{\it Volume}}})+\sqrt {-{{\it Pstart}}^{2}+{{\it Pin}}^{2}}{{\it Pstart}}^{2}\right )^{-1}}{\frac {1}{\sqrt {{\it Kv}}}}



Edit:
OK, found the error. In which program can I make a pretty formula based on this latex?
There is a pretty command in matlab but it's not graphical.

[matt grime]

surely the warning that the string is too long explains why it won't work on this forum.

If you want to see it just latex it at home using your installation of latex. This is freely available for all *nix platforms, windows, mac OSX, and probably many more besides. just download the relevant version and enjoy. use google to find it.

[JustStuit]

How would you put a space in Latex?

Say I wanted to put something in scientific notation, what's the best way to do that.

[matt grime]

it's a slash followed by a space. eg "\ " without the quotation marks. You can insert larger spaces. Use google to get the information; there is a lot of latex on line (no puns please).

[JustStuit]

Thanks :-)

[timo]

matt grime said:

Use google to get the information; there is a lot of latex on line (no puns please).

Actually, I always google for "tex" for that reason.

[matt grime]

That might well work, but for the newbies remember a lot of tex stuff is deprecated in latex2e (documentclass for instance doesn't work in tex).

[RyanJ]

Hey Dave, can you tell me if this is a bug?

Sometimes I get a restricted command error even when its text and not a command, name for example triggers error even if its not preceded by a slash... any ideas?

Cheers,

Ryan Jones

[dave]

Can you give me an example?

[RyanJ]

dave said:

Can you give me an example?

Yea shure :)

[LaTeX Error: Restricted command found (name)]

Cheers,

Ryan Jones