Dave I don't know where to put this post, you can delete it later.

 

I would like to know if there are any plans to implement a drawing program into this forum (you know like MSpaint only your own), so that you could draw circles and straight lines, and have the drawing incorporated neatly into your post, rather than attaching a .jpg or a .bmp. Possibly even a graph program, so that you just enter an equation, and its graph comes up.

 

How hard would something like that be?

 

Just a thought...

 

Regards

IS there not an extention to LATEX that means you can do graphs n that?

IS there not an extention to LATEX that means you can do graphs n that?

 

I don't know anything about it.

no it was 'just a thought', but if there isnt, there should be, or another coding of similar applicance, because there should be for really complex forums.

In latex it's possible to use the picture environment but I'd have to recode some of the latex module to get it to work properly. pstricks is also a great package for drawing all sorts of graphs and funky stuff.

 

I'll look into it.

In latex it's possible to use the picture environment but I'd have to recode some of the latex module to get it to work properly. pstricks is also a great package for drawing all sorts of graphs and funky stuff.

 

I'll look into it.

Awesome.

Or you could do it on paste and host it on the net (several websites offer free web space) e.g. (for images only) http://www.photobucket.com (they dont send you spam) and the you just use tags and paste the url in between the tags.

 

like:

 

[ img ] http://www.photobucket.com/Johnny5/maths.jpg [ / img ]

 

It tells you the images URL.... you'll see if you sign up to the website. The alternative is to use image attachments (within SFN) but they all turn up at the bottom, so it may not be suitable in all cases.

There's nothing quite like precise mathematical diagrams though. LaTeX (or at least pstricks) makes it "fairly" simple to do this. I've also been pondering things for the Chemistry forum, typesetting molecules and all that; again, LaTeX with ppchtex makes it pretty easy.