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I noticed on a page with some math on it, the use of [tex] [/tex] with some symbolic text to represent the functions desired

any tool available to bolt some of that into a web page?
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There are a number of TeX to HTML converters like hevea, latex2html, etc. If you are on Linux, you could call them on the command line and output the output.
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Then there are javascript solutions as well - the simplest would, probably, be the google chart api (which can produce images from LaTeX strings):
Complex example:
Image
Simple example:
Image

There's also MathJax, which does not rely on any third-party services.
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I have Microsoft Office and I was looking at Google Charts vs what I can do with my skills using Excel and I believe I can do a tad better with it.

There are some misc math tools, but I was wondering what was available

I know that Latex is widely used with the math dept at most schools who all use Linux due to the costs
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Vegan wrote:widely used with the math dept at most schools who all use Linux due to the costs
People use Linux because it is excellent. It is not necessarily cheaper than MS products these days.
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I guess a learning curve has some value in economics.

I was wondering if there was a reference manual so that a quick edit type job would so
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I found all I needed from LaTeX (basically, only displaymath mode) here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Math ... ks_of_text
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