help button suggests these tags for LaTeX...

[latex...]

[latex]y = \sqrt{4x^2}[/latex]

 

a thread gives these tags...

[math...]

[math]y = \sqrt{4x^2} [/math]

 

edit: turns out both work

Edited February 13, 201114 yr by Blahah

Yeah, they're aliases to each other.

Same with imath?

imath and ce trip different environments in LaTeX; imath does the inline environment, and ce uses mhchem.

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.

Edited February 14, 201114 yr by ydoaPs

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

 

imath: [imath]\frac{1}{a}[/imath]

 

math: [math]\frac{1}{a}[/math]

Good to know about imath. What packages are used in the standard math environment? amsmath and amssymb?

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

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.

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.

 

[math]C(\omega) = \frac{1}{2 \pi} \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f(t) \cos (\omega t) \, dt[/math]

 

The PHP code for all of that is available:

 

http://blogs.science...asing-ipblatex/