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#1 Blahah 


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help button suggests these tags for LaTeX...
[latex...]
y = \sqrt{4x^2}

a thread gives these tags...
[math...]
y = \sqrt{4x^2}

edit: turns out both work

This post has been edited by Blahah: 13 February 2011 - 08:41 PM

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#2 Cap'n Refsmmat 


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Yeah, they're aliases to each other.
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#3 User is online  swansont 


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Same with imath?
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#4 Cap'n Refsmmat 


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imath and ce trip different environments in LaTeX; imath does the inline environment, and ce uses mhchem.
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#5 User is online  ydoaPs 


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Do we still have the two separate versions of LaTeX on the site? IIRC, we had the [math][/math] tags and another set for having equations inside blocks of text.

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#6 Cap'n Refsmmat 


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Yes, imath is the inline math tag, for LaTeX inside blocks of text. The difference:

imath: \frac{1}{a}

math: \frac{1}{a}
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#7 Blahah 


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Good to know about imath. What packages are used in the standard math environment? amsmath and amssymb?
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#8 Cap'n Refsmmat 


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Looks like the current list is amsmath, amsfonts, amssymb, color, and slashed.
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#9 Blahah 


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Thanks. I have to say, the equations here look somehow nicer than the ones produced by my systems at home and at work. Perhaps it's an illusion, but they just look a bit nicer.
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#10 Cap'n Refsmmat 


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It took us a bit of cleverness to get to this point. Equations are generated in large font sizes at high resolution, converted into a high-quality PNG by dvipng, and then resampled to a smaller size with antialiasing by mogrify.

dave (one of our other admins) is responsible for most of it.

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