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Mk

Those characters are Unicode and should appear fine in any standard browser.

I also prefer Apple's Option button over the alt+numeric code. On an Apple keyboard, it's handy to be able to type option K (for Kelvin?) for the degrees symbol or option Y for ¥. That sort of thing, I guess. If you forget any of the codes you can activate the keyboard viewer, and there's also a system-wide character palette that has every character possible from many languages and maths.

jostpuur

tiny-tim, I think you are using those smilies a little bit too much.

tiny-tim

Who? Me? Never! The smilies love it! Most people ignore them and they don't like to object Smilies are your friends! Smilies are cool!

Let sleeping dogs lie! How dare you? how could you? how are you? fie on you! and pie! You should be ashamed! You need colour in your life! You need glasses! you need salt!

Schrodinger's Dog

I prefer latex it's clearer, but I can see why some people might prefer the alt keys.

[tex]\int\frac{x}{x^2}\,dx[/tex]

I don't think you can do fractions with those things anyway, and it makes things harder to read in straight text.

Hans de Vries

Indeed, Unicode replaced ASCII in operating systems 15 years or so ago. One can also
use these characters to name files and folders for example.

Regards, Hans

Schrodinger's Dog

You should all do what I do, being monumentally lazy, I type in whatever maths term the person is discussing into google bring up wiki usually then cut and paste anything that is relevant. Or if it's simple stuff just do it myself. Much easier.

For example cutting the polar co-ordinate equations for the Navier stokes equation out of wiki and replacing math tags with tex tags is a lot easier than actually typing them out.

tiny-tim

Evo

Hmmm, how will I know if I can't read them?

P.S. I love your avatar.

_Mayday_

Best thread title ever!

rewebster

What I'd like to see is that the 'white' area (at least on my monitor) that the latex is contained in would be the same color as the background color (that light blue-gray)---it wouldn't stand out as much as it is now, and would be incorporated as 'part' of the text (less distracting).

Kurdt

Its the same colour for me, and I've never had that problem. I guess that would just be a browser issue.

rewebster

maybe there's a 'setting' that I don't know about (?)---I've got ie6 with win98se--with the latest java

there's nothing on the 'howtolatex' page--(by clicking on any latex formula on any post)

Hootenanny

The LaTeX code renders as a PNG graphic, I believe IE browsers prior to V7.0 will not render PNG transparency without a JavaScript fix.

rewebster

thanks--I appreciate someone with 'knowledge''

Hootenanny

Anytime, glad to be of service

tiny-tim

Hi Evo!


I got mine from http://www.cerocscotland.com …

they have loads of wonderful avatars … smurfs … pop-up toasters … gorillas …

just look at any thread at random … !