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Administration => Site Discussion => General Site Discussion => Topic started by: joshuamorgan on December 09, 2007, 04:21:53 pm
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I've come to know LaTeX somewhat intimately over the past year - I've been typesetting some of my Methods assignments and notes using it (my handwriting is terrible!). Here are some of the things I commonly used, feel free to contribute more. A list of LaTeX mathematical symbols is available at http://amath.colorado.edu/documentation/LaTeX/Symbols.pdf.
Fractions
\frac{4}{5}
Trigonometric Functions
\sin x
\cos x
\tan x
Logarithms and Indices
\log_{2} 6
10^{20}
\sqrt{36}
Limits
\lim_{x\to\infty}
Elementary Arithmetic
4 + 5
4 - 5
4 \times 5
4 \div 5
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another great tutorial site:
http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/LaTeX/AoPS_L_GuideSym.php
:)
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Thanks Josh, this is definitely helpful :)
I've been typesetting some of my Methods assignments and notes using it (my handwriting is terrible!)
My handwriting's bad too :P
I used to use the equation editor in OpenOffice for formatting equations :D
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anyone here use mathtype? you use it with word, but it's much better than equation editor.
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anyone here use mathtype? you use it with word, but it's much better than equation editor.
Is it commercial software? :(
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well yes, but as if you wouldn't bittorrent...
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Wait, so we have LaTeX on the board? What are the tags for it?
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Wait, so we have LaTeX on the board? What are the tags for it?
[tex]<insert LaTeX here>[/tex]
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anyone here use mathtype? you use it with word, but it's much better than equation editor.
Yeah, I had MathType for a year now, its great :)
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Wait, so we have LaTeX on the board? What are the tags for it?
http://freestudynotes.com/VCEforum/index.php/topic,807.0.html
anyone here use mathtype? you use it with word, but it's much better than equation editor.
Yeah, I had MathType for a year now, its great :)
I used to use MathType when I used Microsoft Office, but IMO the equation editor in OpenOffice is better :)
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If only this board supported LaTeX built in...
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If only this board supported LaTeX built in...
It is.
[tex]\mbox{Hello world}[/tex]
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Could you possibly make it that so when you click on the generated text it gives you the source code?
i.e see here
Cheers :)
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phagist_, I'll see what I can do :)
For now, you can click the "Quote" link next to a post and then look in the quote for the code. Or, right-click the image and view its properties, the LaTeX expression will be present in the URL, after the ?
For example:
http: //stuff.daniel15.com/cgi-bin/mathtex.cgi?%5Cmbox{Hello%20world}
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how do we apply these latex symbols in posts, do we just paste them in after the number?
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how do we apply these latex symbols in posts, do we just paste them in after the number?
By using the "tex" BBCode:
[tex](x+2)^5 = 7[/tex]
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Test...test
\begin{vmatrix} a & b & c \\
d & e & f \\
g & h & i \end{vmatrix}
\begin{pmatrix} \Alpha & \Beta & \Gamma & \Delta \\
\Epsilon & \Zeta & \Eta & \Theta \end{pmatrix}
\overbrace{Hello\ World}^{Heaven} \equiv \underbrace{Hello\ World}_{Heck}
Hey how come my second one doesn't work??
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Your second one works if you replace it with the lower-case versions. I'm not sure why some of the upper-case ones are missing.
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my first time using latex, let me experiment.
"tex"3 \alpha \beta\nleq
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wtf it didn't work, how the hell do you make it work!
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Use modify instead of double posting please.
You have to write them in BBCode tags.
[tex]Insert code here[/tex]
Just like how [b]Bold text[/b]
gives you: Bold text
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oh yer sorry about that,.
is there a code button somewhere?
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Huh?
No, I don't think there is a button for it, you just have to type out manually:
[tex]\mbox{Some sample code here: }\alpha \beta \leq \frac{x}{y}[/tex]
Produces this:
If you're really confused, quote my post and have a look at how it's written out, and you should be able to work it out.
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wow that's complicated!
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I'll add a button for it, just need an appropriate button image :)
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/f/4/0/f40956d65a776bf240c72ab157813b67.png)
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/f/4/0/f40956d65a776bf240c72ab157813b67.png)
That's a bit big, it needs to be 23x22 (like all the normal buttons)
Don't worry, I'll try to find something to use :D
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(http://obsolete-chaos.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/tex.gif)
23x22 :D
and if you want the png version
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I tried making that GIF so it has a transparent background (which is what's needed for the BBCode buttons), but it didn't turn out so well. Oh well, at least there's a working button now :D
Edit: fixed it, looks a lot nicer now :)
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lol i made the png so it was fully transparent! xD
oh well, that's cool
looks good daniel :D
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SMF requires transparent gifs, though ;)
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export the png as a gif! xD
sorry i was lazy :P
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This might work as a button
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It's already been implemented, Ahmad ;)
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\alpha
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doesn't work :S how do we type it in?
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you might want to read from http://vcenotes.com/forum/index.php/topic,864.msg22374.html#msg22374 (and a few posts on)