Timeline for MathJax basic tutorial and quick reference
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| Jun 7 at 17:31 | history | edited | MJD | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
remove excess dollar signs in Greek capital letters section
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| Jun 7 at 17:16 | history | edited | MJD | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
remove duplicate item from list of subarticles
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| Jun 7 at 17:12 | history | rollback | MJD |
Rollback to Revision 124
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| Jun 4 at 7:17 | history | edited | Manfred Weis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added `\!` for removing spaces
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| Mar 1 at 1:42 | history | edited | MJD | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
mention formatting sandbox per suggestion of Dan Asimov
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| Feb 6 at 16:44 | history | edited | MJD | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
“prime” symbol; make examples consistent
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| Feb 6 at 16:25 | history | edited | MJD | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
“prime” symbol
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| Jan 21 at 23:58 | comment | added | MJD | I think that would be better in a separate post. It is important that the main post be reasonably short and not suffer from too much bloat | |
| Jan 21 at 23:57 | history | rollback | MJD |
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| Jan 21 at 21:44 | comment | added | zwim | Added additional symbols and info to paragraph 6. to construct a big operator. | |
| Jan 21 at 21:43 | history | edited | zwim | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 17, 2023 at 13:15 | history | edited | jw_ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 21, 2023 at 3:23 | history | edited | davemackey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2023 at 18:50 | comment | added | Тyma Gaidash |
Suggestions: Replace \neq with \ne and the \mathscr on lowercase letters does not work
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| Mar 20, 2023 at 18:35 | history | edited | davemackey | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Minor changes to improve readability
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| Mar 5, 2023 at 12:34 | comment | added | Тyma Gaidash | Even though others may exist outside of SE, why not make an HTML, commands like </>, guide on MSE? | |
| Nov 3, 2022 at 13:45 | comment | added | Peter Mortensen | There is also Short and helpful advice on using MathJax on the site. | |
| Oct 20, 2022 at 17:14 | comment | added | Тyma Gaidash |
There is also $\Leftrightarrow$ \Leftrightarrow
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| Oct 20, 2022 at 17:10 | comment | added | Evan Schwartzentruber |
For biconditional statements, as well as $\iff$ \iff there is also $\leftrightarrow$ \leftrightarrow for a tidier look.
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| Aug 29, 2022 at 21:38 | history | edited | MJD | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
better example of \left. , per suggestion of Gabriel Staples
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| Aug 29, 2022 at 21:25 | history | edited | MJD | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
remove redundant synonyms for \ge and \le; remove a couple of less-frequently used symbols discussion in comments
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| Aug 27, 2022 at 15:03 | history | edited | MJD | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 27, 2022 at 14:29 | comment | added | MJD | It is important that this note be reasonably short and not suffer from too much bloat. I support your addendum post. | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 4:20 | answer | added | Gabriel Staples | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 4:09 | comment | added | Gabriel Staples | @MJD, why the roll-back to revert my edit? Learning how to add a stretched vertical bar to indicate the boundary values for a definite integral took a lot of work and was hard to find. | |
| Aug 27, 2022 at 3:24 | history | rollback | MJD |
Rollback to Revision 111
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| Aug 19, 2022 at 7:36 | history | edited | Gabriel Staples | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
improve parenthesis section by adding a stretched vertical bar
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| Jul 28, 2022 at 15:49 | answer | added | Antoni Parellada | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 1, 2022 at 13:51 | comment | added | MJD |
It has been in there since day 1 in fact. But I don't think it has ever been useful. \left and \right are good enough for all possible Math SE uses. I think there's no unclear formula anyone could write that would become clear by using \biggl.
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| May 1, 2022 at 0:11 | comment | added | Тyma Gaidash | @MJD Why remove the “if manual adjustments are required” parenthesis section; it was there for some time? | |
| Apr 30, 2022 at 13:29 | comment | added | MJD |
@CalvinKhor My original idea was not to divide up the relations by equivalence / nonequivalence, but to put the elementary arithmetic relations $\lt, \gt, \le, \ge, \ne$ in one place, and the more advanced symbols $\sim, \equiv, \cong, \prec, \lhd$ in another. My sense was that $\succ$ is much less frequently used, and that someone looking for it would be a more advanced user who could guess the name, so I left it out. Over time the first section was bloated with unnecessary additions like \leqslant and \leqq.
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| Apr 30, 2022 at 13:08 | comment | added | MJD |
@CalvinKhor That's great, thanks, because it means we can get rid of \cdots.
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| Apr 30, 2022 at 13:06 | history | edited | MJD | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Remove \cdots as per Calvin Khor's useful comment
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| Apr 30, 2022 at 3:00 | comment | added | Calvin Khor |
@TymaGaidash iBug is wrong, both in Mathjax and LaTeX. The difference is that \dots tries to intelligently choose between \ldots (l for lower) and \cdots (c for center) depending on the surrounding text e.g. a+\ldots+b$a+\ldots+b$ vs a+\dots+b$a+\dots+b$.
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| Apr 29, 2022 at 8:05 | comment | added | iBug | @TymaGaidash You type one less letter, and otherwise identical. | |
| Apr 29, 2022 at 6:35 | history | edited | MJD | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
remove unnecessary explanations and rarely-used symbols; remove manual parentheses adjustments
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| Apr 29, 2022 at 6:33 | comment | added | MJD | \lhd was in there because it is a very frequently-used symbol in group theory. As far as I know \rhd is not common. And your imagined frustration is not a reliable guide to what should be in the tutorial. It is important that this article be reasonably short and not suffer from too much bloat. | |
| Apr 29, 2022 at 1:24 | comment | added | Тyma Gaidash | @iBug What is the difference between \ldots and \dots? | |
| Apr 27, 2022 at 11:34 | history | edited | iBug | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 27, 2022 at 11:33 | comment | added | iBug |
@MJD I understand how "completeness" is not the goal here, but I find it frustrating if I were to learn \lt without \gt (just for example). Sure I'll remove \ldots but I'd keep \rhd though. Same reasoning when I previously added \gets and \impliedby.
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| Apr 27, 2022 at 10:53 | comment | added | MJD | @ibug "completeness" is not a goal here. It is an anti-goal. The goal is to provide as little as possible. | |
| Apr 27, 2022 at 10:53 | comment | added | MJD | @calvin I agree, including more than one of the dots macros is unnecessary and at least one should be removed. | |
| Apr 27, 2022 at 10:05 | comment | added | Calvin Khor |
Ah. Sorry for misreading the edit. It would IMO be better to remove mention of \ldots and \cdots
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| Apr 27, 2022 at 9:59 | comment | added | iBug |
@CalvinKhor There are a lot of symbols added "for completeness". In fact, my edit added \dots (where there used to be only \ldots). Same for \lhd which was already there and I only added \rhd and an explanation.
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| Apr 27, 2022 at 9:48 | comment | added | Calvin Khor |
@iBug why would you want to teach a newbie to use \ldots, and in any case in your example it renders the same as \dots? I can see \lhd being used but why put it with the euivalence relations? (similar question for \prec but IDK when that was added) (And while I'm at it a better edit description would be nice. Even the default one beats your apple)
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| Apr 27, 2022 at 9:31 | history | edited | iBug | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 10, 2022 at 3:00 | comment | added | Calvin Khor | OK. In this ScienceDirect link there are many competing notations: $*,\otimes_L,\circledast$; Wikipedia in Convolution uses $*_N$ to distinguish from the usual convolution. Google did show me someone on dsp.SE using $\circledast$. Someone on TeX.SE also asked in 2017 where it is used. | |
| Apr 10, 2022 at 2:35 | comment | added | Dan Boschen | @CalvinKhor Here's a very reputable source : ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/st/Convolution.html (it's common in signal processing applications) | |
| Apr 10, 2022 at 2:32 | comment | added | Calvin Khor | @DanBoschen I have never seen that in any math paper or book (but I am young..). Wikipedia's entry on the circular convolution does not have it; it instead uses $*$ which I would say is commonly used. I don't feel strongly enough to edit, so I have only voiced my disagreement. | |
| Apr 10, 2022 at 2:25 | comment | added | Dan Boschen | @CalvinKhor It is commonly used to denote the circular convolution process, but if there isn't room to include it I understand. | |
| Apr 10, 2022 at 1:18 | comment | added | Calvin Khor |
@DanBoschen I do not agree with adding $\circledast$. This page is not meant to be exhaustive, and I don't think $\circledast$ is described by "Some of the most common". And there are other symbols \odot,\otimes$\odot,\otimes$ that are more common in my experience.
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| Apr 9, 2022 at 17:22 | history | edited | Dan Boschen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 4, 2022 at 13:49 | history | edited | The Amplitwist | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
mainly organized links
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| Mar 4, 2022 at 5:37 | history | edited | Calvin Khor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
completed list of escapable characters; fixed instruction on how to escape dollar sign (see bug: https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/q/32856/)
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| Dec 22, 2021 at 15:59 | history | edited | iBug | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Add \gets, \impliedby, \iff, they certainly belongs to the same family, 🍎
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| Dec 19, 2021 at 16:28 | comment | added | Lori | \nsim for not similar. | |
| Dec 12, 2021 at 7:18 | comment | added | Jules Manson | @AndrewStacey that very same thing happened to me yesterday and then i found this tutorial which was a godsend... "Someone who doesn't know the distinction might be tempted to search for help on TeX or LaTeX instead and wonder why it doesn't work." | |
| Dec 10, 2021 at 15:27 | history | edited | MJD | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
trim and reformat a little
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| Dec 10, 2021 at 12:00 | comment | added | MJD | Main reason: nobody ever uses it. Secondary reason: nobody needs it; it's an obscure and inferior replacement for "because". Tertiary reason: we already have links to lists of TeX symbols that include it. | |
| Dec 10, 2021 at 5:46 | comment | added | iBug |
@MJD Would you mind sharing your reasoning behind revision #102 (i.e. why you rolled back the addition of \because)?
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| Nov 22, 2021 at 1:45 | history | rollback | MJD |
Rollback to Revision 100
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| Nov 21, 2021 at 15:24 | history | edited | Shaun | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 4, 2021 at 8:29 | comment | added | code_conundrum | Here, we can more express mathematical expression | |
| May 21, 2021 at 20:13 | history | edited | Тyma Gaidash | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
The font letters are complete. The calligraphic and script letters look nice.
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| Apr 27, 2021 at 19:25 | history | edited | Ole | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 25, 2021 at 8:30 | history | edited | IFeelGood | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Updated link to supported latex commands
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| Mar 12, 2021 at 22:05 | comment | added | Verónica Rmz. |
Perhaps $\uparrow$ and $\downarrow$, $\uparrow$ and $\downarrow$ could be added too in the section of arrows
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| Feb 8, 2021 at 12:16 | comment | added | user202729 | Related: Diagonal lines in table cell on mathjax - Mathematics Meta Stack Exchange | |
| Feb 1, 2021 at 21:33 | history | edited | miracle173 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
moved the sentence about Greek letter variants to the Greek letters section twhere a reader will suspect it.
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| Jan 31, 2021 at 9:34 | history | edited | miracle173 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
simplified the retrieving of a special symbol for the user by putting each symbol in its own `$...$`-environment
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| Jan 26, 2021 at 15:20 | comment | added | user1729 | Is it just me, or does the sentence "There are also other possibilities how to view the code for the formula or the whole post." read badly? I feel that something like "...possibilities for how.." would read better. | |
| Dec 25, 2020 at 17:13 | history | edited | cqfd | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 17, 2020 at 21:10 | history | edited | Arturo Magidin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 10, 2020 at 2:37 | history | edited | jw_ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 10, 2020 at 22:44 | history | rollback | Xander HendersonMod |
Rollback to Revision 90
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| Nov 10, 2020 at 13:53 | history | edited | user1729 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 7, 2020 at 11:12 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
sorry that was a wrong link
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| Nov 7, 2020 at 9:37 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
in the bullet point mentioned ways to get source code for a formula, I have added a link to: [How to view LaTeX source of equations?](https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/q/659)
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| Oct 12, 2020 at 19:01 | history | edited | amWhy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 12, 2020 at 18:51 | history | edited | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 7, 2020 at 10:59 | comment | added | user1729 |
I noticed that quite a few people on main are using \backslash instead of \setminus for, well, the operation of setminus. The spacing is different: compare $A\backslash B$ with $A\setminus B$, and \setminus is designed for this use. I edited the tutorial to mention this, and also added a link to a TeX.SE question about this.
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| Oct 7, 2020 at 10:56 | history | edited | user1729 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 15, 2020 at 1:04 | history | edited | sai-kartik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2020 at 10:54 | answer | added | user803596 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 19, 2020 at 21:54 | comment | added | Sebastiano |
I have finded a very nice site where there are a list of complete command to write in MathJax. Very interesting and very fast: the title is TeX Commands available in MathJax. onemathematicalcat.org/MathJaxDocumentation/TeXSyntax.htm
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| Apr 29, 2020 at 15:29 | history | edited | on4aa | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Nest `$\,$` to access a thin space in MathJax `\text{}` mode.
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| Apr 17, 2020 at 5:57 | comment | added | wide_eyed_pupil | this was incredibly help to me after getting nowhere with some LaTeX and Tex Stack Exchange tutorials, online books and other resources! The only thing I was looking for that this didn't cover, and I did see mentioned somewhere in a deep LaTeX reference book was how to make equations bigger, when you have factions with power functions and subscripts it can all end up rather small on SE Mathematics using inline i.e single '$' notation at least. | |
| Mar 23, 2020 at 11:37 | answer | added | Dávid Laczkó | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 1:11 | comment | added | Flinn Bella | Is there a comic sans font? I believe the addition of this could have very positive effects on math.stackexchange.com .... | |
| Jan 14, 2020 at 16:20 | history | edited | Jam | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
removed duplicate entry from contents | changed character to divide entries in contents
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| Jan 14, 2020 at 16:10 | history | edited | Jam | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added to point 11 that nonstandard operator names can be used | made full list of links to topics and alphabetized it
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| Jan 14, 2020 at 15:37 | history | edited | Jam | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added to point 11 that nonstandard operator names can be used
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| Jan 14, 2020 at 15:19 | answer | added | Jam | timeline score: 14 | |
| Nov 26, 2019 at 19:33 | history | edited | J. W. Tanner | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
corrected spelling of Matrices for the link
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| Oct 19, 2019 at 14:11 | history | edited | GrayLiterature | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added small list of links to equations below so that people can easily detect what is available in this post.
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| Sep 7, 2019 at 20:31 | answer | added | Antoni Parellada | timeline score: 7 | |
| Mar 21, 2019 at 9:21 | history | edited | YuiTo Cheng |
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| Mar 20, 2019 at 5:20 | answer | added | Landon | timeline score: 12 | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 21:07 | history | edited | Christoph | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 26, 2018 at 0:44 | comment | added | MJD | @peter To enable a user of the web site to continue learning on their own from examples that they see on every other post here. | |
| Nov 25, 2018 at 23:50 | comment | added | Peter Mortensen | What is the purpose of the first paragraph?? | |
| Nov 25, 2018 at 23:49 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 24, 2018 at 20:36 | history | edited | Franklin Pezzuti Dyer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 21, 2018 at 21:53 | history | rollback | MJD |
Rollback to Revision 71
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| Nov 21, 2018 at 19:19 | history | edited | Kavi Vaidya | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
I have added the \limits attribute because I feel like it is commonly used and I had to search extensively to get it. Please contact me if I did something wrong! My grammar is bad, so feel free to edit this.
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| Nov 8, 2018 at 22:47 | history | edited | prusswan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 18, 2018 at 17:46 | history | edited | HugoTeixeira | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 24, 2018 at 18:16 | history | edited | hardmath | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
in response to an edit by abu_bua added links to two other posts on (continued) fractions
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| Jun 24, 2018 at 13:34 | history | edited | abu_bua | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 28, 2018 at 16:36 | history | edited | user153330 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 20, 2018 at 13:22 | answer | added | Mr Pie | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jan 26, 2018 at 2:01 | answer | added | jdhao | timeline score: 29 | |
| Jan 24, 2018 at 8:57 | comment | added | Avatar | For everyone new to Latex, I have recently written a realtime latex editor where you can quickly create your math notations and formulas. Enjoy! | |
| Jan 19, 2018 at 7:28 | answer | added | GNUSupporter 8964民主女神 地下教會 | timeline score: 20 | |
| Jan 15, 2018 at 20:19 | history | edited | MJD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
link to German translation
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| Jan 5, 2018 at 5:40 | history | edited | DynamoBlaze | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 27, 2017 at 9:20 | comment | added | user167920 | $\left(\frac{\sqrtx}{y}\right)$ | |
| Dec 10, 2017 at 8:14 | history | edited | Mico | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
the current URL for the "comprehensive symbols list" points to a version of the document that contains only ca 6,000 symbols. In fact, the up-to-date version of the document lists more than 14,000 [!].
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| Nov 18, 2017 at 4:41 | history | edited | Paul Sinclair | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added mention of \middle to the discussion of \left and \right as it really belongs together with them.
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| Oct 17, 2017 at 2:02 | answer | added | gen-ℤ ready to perish | timeline score: 19 | |
| Jun 2, 2017 at 7:31 | history | edited | Tom Hale | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Add manual parentheses size adjustments from information in https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/26459/differently-sized-nested-brackets-in-mathjax?noredirect=1#comment104514_26460
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| Nov 2, 2016 at 14:35 | answer | added | hardmath | timeline score: 16 | |
| Sep 23, 2016 at 6:02 | answer | added | Alexis Olson | timeline score: 30 | |
| Sep 22, 2016 at 15:03 | answer | added | Workaholic | timeline score: 28 | |
| Sep 13, 2016 at 19:27 | history | edited | Caleb Stanford | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 9, 2016 at 22:22 | comment | added | Simply Beautiful Art | @user1527227 We kinda did it! math.stackexchange.com/help/notation | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 2:28 | comment | added | M. Beausoleil | How do you add a "is proportional to" \propto in a Markdown document? | |
| Jul 18, 2016 at 14:02 | comment | added | MJD |
@Sayantani It's \lhd $\lhd$. I've added this to section 12.
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| Jul 18, 2016 at 14:02 | history | edited | MJD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2016 at 13:49 | comment | added | null | How to write $H$ is normal in $G$ ? I'm talking about the inverted delta sign. Thanks. | |
| Jun 15, 2016 at 11:09 | history | rollback | Jyrki Lahtonen |
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| Jun 15, 2016 at 11:05 | history | edited | Jyrki Lahtonen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 1, 2016 at 23:49 | comment | added | MJD | Because it's not important. Someone who doesn't know how to write $\therefore$ will have no trouble thinking of how to write “therefore” instead. | |
| Jun 1, 2016 at 22:40 | comment | added | user312097 | Why isn't this $\therefore$ up there. therefore should be a must. | |
| May 1, 2016 at 9:52 | history | edited | gebruiker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 19, 2016 at 11:07 | history | edited | Em. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
I made the code explicit in the examples for item 2. so that new commers have a **quick** refernece to a commone example. They are likely to skip the whole "righ-click/see tex" message in item 1.
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| Jan 28, 2016 at 5:03 | answer | added | David | timeline score: 47 | |
| Jan 10, 2016 at 19:48 | answer | added | webbertiger | timeline score: 66 | |
| Sep 8, 2015 at 12:04 | history | edited | MathAdam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added clarification to the first point. You can't just cut and paste what you see when you follow these instructions.
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| Aug 27, 2015 at 14:14 | answer | added | David K | timeline score: 58 | |
| Aug 8, 2015 at 11:15 | history | edited | wythagoras | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 26, 2015 at 15:48 | answer | added | David K | timeline score: 36 | |
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| Jul 18, 2015 at 16:12 | comment | added | wythagoras | Wow, this is the first post on main and meta together to reach more than 1k votes. | |
| Jul 14, 2015 at 18:03 | history | edited | MJD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 10, 2015 at 13:22 | history | edited | MJD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
better example of \left...\right
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| Jun 30, 2015 at 7:40 | comment | added | Surb | I think this thread: meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/20896/… should be linked here. | |
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| Mar 19, 2015 at 7:51 | comment | added | Andrew T. | Might be late, but when I search "mathjax tutorial" on Google, this meta post is the first result returned. Congrats! | |
| Mar 16, 2015 at 13:39 | history | edited | MJD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 16, 2015 at 13:34 | history | edited | MJD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 16, 2015 at 13:32 | history | rollback | MJD |
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| Feb 17, 2015 at 20:24 | answer | added | MvG | timeline score: 38 | |
| Jan 25, 2015 at 21:32 | history | edited | MJD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2014 at 15:13 | history | edited | MJD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
don't bury the lede; boldface most important single point
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| Sep 23, 2014 at 20:07 | answer | added | Lehs | timeline score: 130 | |
| Jun 29, 2014 at 16:21 | comment | added | r.e.s. | Another useful resource is Wikipedia's Help:Displaying_a_formula. | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 8:39 | answer | added | MvG | timeline score: 62 | |
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| Apr 5, 2014 at 20:23 | answer | added | homegrown | timeline score: 44 | |
| Mar 23, 2014 at 23:28 | answer | added | MJD | timeline score: 145 | |
| Mar 14, 2014 at 19:41 | answer | added | Américo Tavares | timeline score: 130 | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 23:31 | history | edited | Andrew Kelley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
The sum of the first n squares has a formula with divide by 6, not 2.
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| Feb 26, 2014 at 8:30 | answer | added | Anonymous Computer | timeline score: 78 | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 10:38 | history | edited | user642796 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 5, 2014 at 21:49 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Spelling (e.g. ref. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathJax>). Made the internal numbers in the list match the actual output.
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| Nov 13, 2013 at 13:45 | answer | added | Abramo | timeline score: 94 | |
| Oct 31, 2013 at 10:21 | answer | added | Tobias Kienzler | timeline score: 103 | |
| Oct 31, 2013 at 8:11 | history | edited | Juzer Ali | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Corrected the formulae for sum of squares of n consecutive integers starting 0
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| Jun 10, 2013 at 16:23 | comment | added | robjohn Mod |
@MJD: I use \mathrm in many places; e.g. $\mathrm{d}x$ in integrals and derivatives and for operator names that don't need the full force of \operatorname. \mathrm was intended for roman symbols in math mode; \text was intended for text because of the way it spaces things. See this TEX thread. Since I don't believe we can use preambles in MathJax, we can't use \DeclareMathOperator, though we can use \newcommand, but that is orthogonal to the use of \mathrm vs \text for math symbols.
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| Jun 10, 2013 at 15:58 | comment | added | MJD |
@robjohn I never use \mathrm. I can see the value of mentioning \text, because beginners often write things like $\{ x | x is hyperellipically constrained \}$, but \mathrm doesn't help here, and I'm not sure why it is a good use of space in the tutorial. Is it important for some reason I don't appreciate?
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| Jun 10, 2013 at 6:46 | history | edited | robjohnMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 31, 2013 at 18:09 | comment | added | user1527227 | I wish I saw this post when I first joined. This post should be a main link on the home page. There should be a button under each box: NEW TO LATEX, CLICK HERE FOR EXAMPLES. This is extremely useful, concise. | |
| Apr 18, 2013 at 1:43 | history | edited | MJD | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 20, 2013 at 2:16 | comment | added | MJD |
All those reasons seem to apply to $\TeX/\LaTeX$, but not to MathJax, and not to anything we would likely be doing in MathJax or on this site. For example, the fact that the existence of \over complicates the design of macros is completely irrelevant to us here.
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| Jan 20, 2013 at 1:21 | comment | added | user53153 | @MJD The TeX.SE thread to which I linked gives some reasons for preferring \frac. The simplest reason is to maintain consistent format of LaTeX commands, which is the prefix form \command{argument}{maybe more arguments}. For example, the LaTeX way is \textit{something} while the old TeX way was {\it something}. Same with \frac and \over. // Someone who is used to TeX in one or another way can happily proceed without worrying about what I or anyone else thinks. But someone who's just beginning to learn may well begin with the modern approach. | |
| Jan 20, 2013 at 1:14 | comment | added | MJD |
@5PM Okay, but why do you care so much, and why should we care that you care so much? Is there a reason to prefer \frac to \over?
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| Jan 20, 2013 at 1:07 | comment | added | user53153 |
I don't really mind \over being mentioned in item 8, but I had to replace it with \frac in the first two examples of fractions. What is the difference between \over and \frac? // By the way, I think this post should be tagged (faq) but it's stuck on (faq-proposed).
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I replaced \over with \frac{}{} in the first two examples. Beginning users should learn the LaTeX-recommended way of creating fractions
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| Oct 3, 2012 at 11:47 | answer | added | Américo Tavares | timeline score: 126 | |
| Oct 1, 2012 at 9:03 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey |
@WillieWong That's cheating. The alignat environment is for when aligning stuff when you are already in a mathematical environment and would have been a better choice for MathJaX to use here. But it's an important example of the limitations of MathJaX: it is only for mathematical formatting.
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| Sep 14, 2012 at 2:38 | comment | added | MJD | Shoot, the "click the edit link" advice is not very good because users don't get an edit link until they have some reputation. It's unfortunate that new users don't even get a "view source" link. I wonder if that advice should be demoted? | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 14:02 | comment | added | Willie Wong |
A not-just-random-symbols example of something that works in LaTeX but not in MathJax: LaTeX has the empheq package (Link) whose functions are, best as I can tell, not replicated in MathJax. And just for fun I give a MathJax expression that won't render in LaTeX: try $$ \begin{align} ... \end{align} $$.
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| Sep 12, 2012 at 13:56 | comment | added | Willie Wong |
@axblount Anything that requires loading an additional package which MathJax doesn't load (either by default, on our configuration, or impossible to load b/c an implementation hasn't been coded yet). Some random examples include those of stmaryrd like \inplus, \boxast, \owedge.
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| Sep 11, 2012 at 16:04 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey |
@axblount For a start, you've changed the goalposts: "LaTeX math expressions". LaTeX is so much more than just a way of typesetting maths! Second, I don't really know but it wouldn't take me long to cook one up. I don't use MathJaX so I haven't explored it. But I know, for example, that it can't handle catcode changes. Which means that I can't make ( and ) automatically resizeable. I can in LaTeX.
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| Sep 11, 2012 at 16:00 | comment | added | axblount | @AndrewStacey Honest question because I have no idea: What sorts of LaTeX math expressions is MathJaX incapable of rendering? | |
| Sep 11, 2012 at 15:08 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey | @axblount But that's precisely the wrong way around to think about it! The likelihood is that someone will look at this tutorial to figure out how to write something on the Maths-SX site: i.e., to use MathJaX. If they can't find help here, where do they go? If they have the idea that MathJaX is "just a javascript implementation of TeX" then they might think to look for help with TeX, but that is quite possibly not going to be helpful. | |
| Sep 11, 2012 at 15:01 | comment | added | axblount | @AndrewStacey All the tips given here would work in any $\TeX$/$\LaTeX$ environment with the proper packages. MathJax is just the service used to render it. You wouldn't say "Miktex tutorial" or "texlive tutorial". | |
| Sep 11, 2012 at 14:40 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey | @MJD Except that this is meant as a tutorial for those who aren't familiar with the distinction (and there really is a distinction: "slightly incompatible implementations" doesn't really fit the bill here). One thing tutorials often include is a "Where to find out more" section. This doesn't. Someone who doesn't know the distinction might be tempted to search for help on TeX or LaTeX instead and wonder why it doesn't work. | |
| Sep 11, 2012 at 14:35 | comment | added | MJD | @AndrewStacey I wouldn't. They are close enough that it seems to me to be a needless refinement. I might even argue that MathJax is $\TeX$, although an alternative implementation. We're willing to accept that other programming languages (JavaScript, for example) that have slightly incompatible implementations are nevertheless the same language; why not in this case as well? | |
| Sep 11, 2012 at 14:22 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey | @MJD Okay, I've had a go (also the answer about arrays). I wonder also whether or not it is worth a sentence at the end pointing out that whilst MathJaX does its best to emulate TeX, it isn't TeX and so while knowing how something is done in TeX gives you a starting point, it isn't a guarantee that the same thing works in MathJaX. (As a case in point, questions about MathJaX are generally off-topic over on TeX-SX.) | |
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| Sep 11, 2012 at 14:15 | comment | added | MJD | @AndrewStacey Thanks for pointing this out. Let's by all means be as correct as possible, particularly when there's no extra cost. | |
| Sep 11, 2012 at 14:13 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey | Most of the references to TeX or LaTeX in this and the answers ought to be to MathJaX (the exception that I can see being the output of Detexify). I know this is a bit pedantic, but would it be alright to correct this? | |
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| Aug 30, 2012 at 2:06 | comment | added | MJD |
My basic idea is that if a beginner can express a formula clearly, then someone else can come in and clean up the typesetting afterwards. I am considering getting rid of the section about \big, \left, and \right for this reason, and trimming the section on spacing.
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| Aug 30, 2012 at 2:01 | comment | added | axblount | @MJD I agree on both. I guess it's best to avoid the technicalities of typesetting or this will quickly cease to be a "basic tutorial." | |
| Aug 30, 2012 at 1:36 | comment | added | MJD |
@axblount I wonder if a more generally useful thing would be to point out that empty groups {} count as formulas and can appear anywhere that any other formula can. I think \dfrac is a refinement that doesn't need to be mentioned in the main post.
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| Aug 29, 2012 at 18:09 | comment | added | axblount |
It might be useful to mention hanging subscripts for things like _5C_3 $_5C_3$. You could also mention \frac vs \dfrac.
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| Aug 28, 2012 at 16:54 | comment | added | Charles Staats | I can't speak for others, but I use it all the time (far more often than negative spaces, for instance), and found it extremely annoying to want it before I knew the command. Another point is that this is much more useful in MathJax than in Latex (where one would typically define the new operator in the preamble), so it may be hard to find when looking up resources for latex commands. | |
| Aug 28, 2012 at 16:48 | comment | added | MJD | @CharlesStaats I considered putting that in, but I wasn't sure it met the threshold for frequently-usedness. Suppose someone wanted it, but didn't know about it. Then in the "worst" case their operator would appear in italics, which did not seem to me to be a serious problem, or one that would impede the person from completing their post. | |
| Aug 28, 2012 at 16:45 | comment | added | Charles Staats |
A quick addition to point 11: If you want to use a $\sin$-like symbol that is not already defined, the command is \operatorname: e.g., \operatorname{Spec} A gives $\operatorname{Spec} A$.
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| Aug 28, 2012 at 13:26 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | Two related questions: How do I insert a table when asking a question? and How to show the integral symbol on this site? | |
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| Aug 28, 2012 at 2:06 | comment | added | robjohn Mod |
Some capital Greek letters are the same as the Roman equivalents, so they are not separated in $\LaTeX$. For a capital beta, one must use something like \mathrm{B}: $\mathrm{B}$
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