LaTeX button suggestion

[K!!]

Have you people considered to design a LaTeX button which generates [math][/math] tags instantly without writtin'em?

[ydoaPs]

If you're going to type out the rest of the symbols, why use a button for the [math] [/math] tags?

[K!!]

Sorry, I don't get very well what you mean.

[ydoaPs]

We don't have \lambda, \infty, \nabla, etc buttons, so why would we need a button for [math] [/math] tags?

[K!!]

It is for save time.

 

It's quickly when you're helpin' someone to solve a problem. (I'm not askin' to set all symbols, it's enough by settin' [math][/math] tags.)

[ecoli]

yeah, but yourdad's point is that if you're typing out all this math anyway, what difference does one more, relatively small tag make?

 

Although, I don't think it's a bad idea, in principle.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

I'll poke around in vB and see if I can get that to work.

[K!!]

Thanks for considering my suggestion Cap'n Refsmmat

[Mr Skeptic]

It would be useful to have a math mode, but it would probably be more useful for learning than for writing. In any case, it would be disproportionate to the amount of space the text editing buttons take up.

[K!!]

it would probably be more useful for learning than for writing.

Yes, this is a good point.

 

Is there a LaTeX manual designed? I can design one for new people.

[ydoaPs]

Yes, this is a good point.

 

Is there a LaTeX manual designed? I can design one for new people.

 

http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=4236

[iNow]

It would be very cool to incorporate something like the following into the Advanced Reply window:

 

http://test.izyba.com/equationeditor/equationeditor.php

 

 

Though, I'm not sure how possible that is, nor what the consequences/challenges of such an implementation might be.

[K!!]

Well, I'm not actually requesting that.

 

I use MathType to type LaTeX codes, it's faster.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

It would be very cool to incorporate something like the following into the Advanced Reply window:

 

http://test.izyba.com/equationeditor/equationeditor.php

 

 

Though, I'm not sure how possible that is, nor what the consequences/challenges of such an implementation might be.

 

Would there be any math folks that would use that? I presume most of them know LaTeX already.

 

It's JavaScript, so it wouldn't be too hard to implement in vB.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Aha!

 

http://pi.bloo.us:800/academic/latex/plugin/

 

That looks pretty cool. I'll see about getting it installed sometime.

[timo]

yeah, but yourdad's point is that if you're typing out all this math anyway, what difference does one more, relatively small tag make?

The big difference I see is that \lambda, ... are TeX codes that a lot of people are familiar with while [ math], [/ math] are SFN-only tags. Other pages use different tags for enclosing TeX-code (e.g. [tex] on PF, <math> on WP). I often get the wrong tag, first.

[Dak]

you could allways just set ^m to auto-insert the [maf][/maf] tags and plonk the cursor in the middle, like happens for ,, etc (^b, ^i, ^u respectively)

 

btw, if you do could you also make ^q == quote tags please?

[K!!]

Cap'n Refsmmat... so... aren't you gonna set the math button?