Re: [Sheflug] Math software.

["Chris J" <cej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, February 23, 2012 12:18, Douglas Mckendrick wrote:
> Hi all,
>         I'm wanting to post an article to a web page.  But The article
> will include some math explanation.  Can anyone recommend some software
> I could write the article with, and possibly save to a format for
> posting?
> The article will include some equations and possibly diagrams/graphs.
> Any help will be much appreciated.
>

I suppose it depends what control you have over the webpage you're posting
it to. For sheer convienience, especially if you're doing this regularly
and you have some degree of control, is to look at Mathjax[1], which
powers places like Stackexchange's maths Q&A forum[2].

Essentially, this allows you to just drop the raw Latex into the page,
then whizzy ajax sprinkles pixie dust to turn the latex into graphical
formulae on the fly. Saves you having to save and generate them manually.

You can see it on something like [3], where the OP sent the equation in
Latax, and Mathjax then applies pixie dust to give you the actual
equation. Plenty of other information on the mathjax website[1].

[1] http://www.mathjax.org/
[2] http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/a/255/25604
[3]
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/112619/isometric-immersion-of-a-separable-banach-space-into-ell-infty

Chris...


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