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[tex] [/tex]
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:23 pm
by Vegan
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?
Re: [tex] [/tex]
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 10:12 pm
by Christopher
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.
Re: [tex] [/tex]
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 12:42 pm
by Weirdan
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:
Simple example:
There's also
MathJax, which does not rely on any third-party services.
Re: [tex] [/tex]
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2013 11:47 am
by Vegan
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
Re: [tex] [/tex]
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2013 10:29 pm
by Christopher
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.
Re: [tex] [/tex]
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 6:45 am
by Vegan
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
Re: [tex] [/tex]
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 7:14 am
by Weirdan
I found all I needed from LaTeX (basically, only displaymath mode) here:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Math ... ks_of_text