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LaTeX for the forums?

PostPosted: Mon Jun 26, 2017 7:11 pm
by Donovan Ready
I have it available already, but wanted to check with the members to see if there's any need or use for it here.

If the answer is yes, I have a tutorial page I can link to.

Here's a couple of examples:



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x=\frac{-b\pm\sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}




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\png
      \definecolor{blueblack}{RGB}{0,0,135}
      \color{blueblack}
      \begin{picture}(4,1.75)
        \thicklines
        \put(2,0.01){\arc{3}{3.53588}{5.8888}}
        \put(.375,.575){\line(1,0){3.25}}
        \put(1.22,1.375){\makebox(0,0){\footnotesize$ds$}}
        \put(.6,.5){\makebox(0,0){\footnotesize$x=0$}}
        \put(3.36,.5){\makebox(0,0){\footnotesize$x=\ell$}}
        \dottedline{.05}(1.0,.575)(1.0,1.10)
        \put(1.0,.5){\makebox(0,0){\footnotesize$x$}}
        \dottedline{.05}(1.5,.575)(1.5,1.40)
        \put(1.5,.5){\makebox(0,0){\footnotesize$x+dx$}}
        \put(1.22,.65){\makebox(0,0){\footnotesize$dx$}}
        \dottedline{.04}(0.6,1.12)(1.25,1.12)
        \put(1.0,1.14){\vector(-1,-1){.45}}
        \put(.58,0.83){\makebox(0,0){\footnotesize$T$}}
        \put(.77,1.05){\makebox(0,0){\scriptsize$\theta(x)$}}
        \put(1.18,1.16){\makebox(0,0){\scriptsize$\theta(x)$}}
        \dottedline{.04}(1.5,1.41)(2.1,1.41)
        \put(1.5,1.44){\vector(4,1){.67}}
        \put(2.22,1.59){\makebox(0,0){\footnotesize$T$}}
        \put(1.95,1.45){\makebox(0,0){\scriptsize$\theta(x+dx)$}}
      \end{picture}

Re: LaTeX for the forums?

PostPosted: Mon Jun 26, 2017 7:38 pm
by Doug Coulter
Donovan, for those who don't know what it is, could you put in an example like the one you sent me?

Re: LaTeX for the forums?

PostPosted: Mon Jun 26, 2017 8:16 pm
by Donovan Ready
I did. The first example above.

Here's the tutorial: LaTeX tutorial.

Re: LaTeX for the forums?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 1:56 am
by johnf
Donovan
Just did a Google
I'm all in favour
But I think this is not what you mean
But Still good on the eyes
https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=LaTex ... ruhnjX3cTM:

And yes ther is some LaTeX in there
:mrgreen:

Re: LaTeX for the forums?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 8:19 am
by Doug Coulter
Tee hee. I'll have to ask Tara who is coming for the week if she brought any plastic to unwrap her from.
The pics would start the bits here on fire, so I won't post those.

Re: LaTeX for the forums?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 11:12 am
by Donovan Ready
John, you can actually add pictures of women in latex to LaTeX markup, but as Doug says, it'll make the pixies angry. :lol:

Re: LaTeX for the forums?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 5:57 pm
by Donovan Ready
Since so many people are using the tutorial, I went ahead and made it live. Notice the new bbCode button in the posting form.

Re: LaTeX for the forums?

PostPosted: Mon Jul 03, 2017 7:03 pm
by Doug Coulter
Cool. It didn't seem to break anything. If I ever catch more OCD I'll use it instead of scanning my crummy hand drawings.

Re: LaTeX for the forums?

PostPosted: Wed May 23, 2018 5:21 pm
by Donovan Ready
The Mathtex server has been changed to John Forkosh's site, and it seems to work fine.

In August when I release my domain, the link to the examples page at the Joint will be broken. I'll see if I can find John's page, and I'll edit my above post.

Edit: And it's done..