Two sets of LaTeX tags?

[Blahah]

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, 2011 by Blahah

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Yeah, they're aliases to each other.

[swansont]

Same with imath?

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

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

[ydoaPs]

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, 2011 by ydoaPs

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

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]

[Blahah]

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

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

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

[Blahah]

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.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

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/