K!! Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Have you people considered to design a LaTeX button which generates [math][/math] tags instantly without writtin'em? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 If you're going to type out the rest of the symbols, why use a button for the [math] [/math] tags? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K!! Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 Sorry, I don't get very well what you mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 We don't have \lambda, \infty, \nabla, etc buttons, so why would we need a button for [math] [/math] tags? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K!! Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 It is for save time. It's quickly when you're helpin' someone to solve a problem. (I'm not askin' to set all symbols, it's enough by settin' [math][/math] tags.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecoli Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 yeah, but yourdad's point is that if you're typing out all this math anyway, what difference does one more, relatively small tag make? Although, I don't think it's a bad idea, in principle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 I'll poke around in vB and see if I can get that to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K!! Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 Thanks for considering my suggestion Cap'n Refsmmat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Skeptic Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 It would be useful to have a math mode, but it would probably be more useful for learning than for writing. In any case, it would be disproportionate to the amount of space the text editing buttons take up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K!! Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 it would probably be more useful for learning than for writing. Yes, this is a good point. Is there a LaTeX manual designed? I can design one for new people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Yes, this is a good point. Is there a LaTeX manual designed? I can design one for new people. http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=4236 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNow Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 It would be very cool to incorporate something like the following into the Advanced Reply window: http://test.izyba.com/equationeditor/equationeditor.php Though, I'm not sure how possible that is, nor what the consequences/challenges of such an implementation might be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K!! Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 Well, I'm not actually requesting that. I use MathType to type LaTeX codes, it's faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 It would be very cool to incorporate something like the following into the Advanced Reply window: http://test.izyba.com/equationeditor/equationeditor.php Though, I'm not sure how possible that is, nor what the consequences/challenges of such an implementation might be. Would there be any math folks that would use that? I presume most of them know LaTeX already. It's JavaScript, so it wouldn't be too hard to implement in vB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 Aha! http://pi.bloo.us:800/academic/latex/plugin/ That looks pretty cool. I'll see about getting it installed sometime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timo Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 yeah, but yourdad's point is that if you're typing out all this math anyway, what difference does one more, relatively small tag make?The big difference I see is that \lambda, ... are TeX codes that a lot of people are familiar with while [ math], [/ math] are SFN-only tags. Other pages use different tags for enclosing TeX-code (e.g. [tex] on PF, <math> on WP). I often get the wrong tag, first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dak Posted January 5, 2008 Share Posted January 5, 2008 you could allways just set ^m to auto-insert the [maf][/maf] tags and plonk the cursor in the middle, like happens for ,, etc (^b, ^i, ^u respectively) btw, if you do could you also make ^q == quote tags please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K!! Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 Cap'n Refsmmat... so... aren't you gonna set the math button? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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