Maths Formula Test

[tex]\Large f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^x e^{-t^2}dt[/tex]

Just testing that a funky new plugin to render maths formulae is working :)

Couldn't resist squeezing in another example:

[tex]\sum_{r=1}^{n}r=\frac12 n(n+1)[/tex]

Comments

  1. Steve-O21 November 2006 at 14:39

    Hello. This is pretty cool, how would someone like me go about doing that? SJ

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  2. Kate Farrell21 November 2006 at 16:50

    Latex and funky.... in the same post?! ;-)

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  3. jonesieboy21 November 2006 at 18:12

    Hmm... it does rather stretch the meaning of "funky" doesn't it?

    The plugin is here:

    http://www.anlak.com/?page_id=66

    To make it work I had to comment out the require Snoopy line in the plugin script.

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  4. Craig21 November 2006 at 19:46

    Hi Jonesieboy. Looks great but is snoopy not a black and white dog (Translated: you lost me when you started talking about snoopy lines in plugin scripts). We need to have a serious chat at some point so you can bring me up to speed.

    Cheers dude

    I like the sound of latex!

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  5. jonesieboy21 November 2006 at 20:30

    Hi Craig. I'm talking to David Gilmour about setting this up for exc-el blogs. Getting it working for comments may be a bit trickier. Meanwhile, you'll be wanting to mug up on LaTEX markup - here's a good place to start:

    http://www.forkosh.com/mimetextutorial.html

    Unfortunately it doesn't work in comment - hey I just fixed it so it does!  Man, being a geek is so useful!
    [tex]e^x=\sum_{n=0}^\infty\frac{x^n}{n!}[/tex]

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  6. Craig21 November 2006 at 22:03

    Thanks for the link Robert. Very Useful. I'm just getting into my laTEX and it's time for bed unfortunately. See you tomorrow.

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  7. Funky Maths Formulae at Stebblog21 November 2006 at 22:46

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  8. digitalsean22 November 2006 at 15:45

    According to the typographical pedants who wrote the specification, it should be typed as [tex]\LaTeX [/tex] or LaTeX in ordinary text. Nice though

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  9. jonesieboy22 November 2006 at 19:35

    Phew - I've finally found out why plus signs were getting chomped - it was to do with the fancy comment posting done by this theme - 3K2. Once I disabled it, everything worked fine. As a final test:

    [tex]\frac{5x^2+3x+2}{7x^3+4}[/tex]

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