# Introducing LaTeX Math Typesetting

by chroot
Tags: introducing, latex, math, typesetting
 Emeritus Sci Advisor PF Gold P: 16,091 We have color? $$\textcolor{red}{Test} \begin{picture}(200,200)(0,0) \put(50,50){\textcolor{green}{\line(1,1){50}}} \end{picture}$$
 Emeritus PF Gold P: 734 $$\begin{picture}(130,90) \put(0,5){\epsfxsize=12cm \epsfbox{11.eps}} \put(0,90){\tau_{B_c} , ps} \put(123,7){\mu, GeV} \end{picture}$$
 P: 342 This is a test. This is not Latex. Just trying to see how to do greek letters and subscripts in regular html. αi Let's see how it looks. Well, it didn't work. I have seen other people typing formulas without latex and I wonder how they do it. What shows as "a" above I typed concatenating "&" "alpha" ";" Does anybody know how to do this? I know how to do it in latex, I just want to know how to do it without latex. I'll appreciate your help.
 Sci Advisor HW Helper PF Gold P: 4,137 Like this? abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz [FONT = Symbol] abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz [ /FONT ] delete the spaces in the tags. Symbol does not appear in the Font-menu.
 P: 199 Bear in mind that not everybody has the Symbol font, and even if you do, it doesn't work everywhere because of certain issues.
 P: 342 Robphy: I think that way of doing it would be adequate for typing a string of greek characters. I am not so sure it is for typing individual characters interspersed with regular letters as in physics equations. I used to know how to do this and I forgot. But the way I did it was not the way you suggest. I also need to do subscripts an superscripts. I was looking at the Font drop-down box and I don't see the font "symbol". Maybe this is what TALewis is talking about. I do have the symbol font when I am using MS Word, but not here. So I guess these fonts are not handled by the operating system. Whatever the solution, I would like of course for everybody to be able to see those greek letters correctly.
 P: 199 Math typesetting on the WWW has been one of the most frustrating things I have come across. Honestly, embedded images generated by LaTeX have been the best solution until something like MathML really gets into gear.
 P: 342 Thank you guys, As answers to my question on this thread were slow to come at first and I figured that it might not be the best place to post a question about non-latex on a latex thread, I initiated a separate thread. I got more answers there and I think with those instructions I can do what I want. TALewis was very helpful on that thread. Let's see if I can post a link to that thread: Typing equations without latex
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 P: 617 $$\frac{3^{2/3}}{3x^{1/3}*((3x)^{2/3}+2)^{1/2}}$$
 P: 617 $$2\pi\int_{2}^{4} (3x^{2/3} +2)^{1/2}*(1 + (\frac{3^{2/3}}{3x^{1/3}*((3x)^{2/3}+2)^{1/2}})^2)^{1/2} dx$$
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 P: 540 How do you get multiple lines? I have been trying for hours. I can only could get multiple lines that were indented to random amount by using "\begin{multline} .....\end{multline}". just using "//" does not seem to work.
 Emeritus Sci Advisor PF Gold P: 10,427 gerben, There are several ways. Examples of all these ways are provided on the first page of this thread. Click the images below to see their source code: $$\begin{multline*} a+b+c+d\\ +e+f+g+h \end{multline*}$$ $$\begin{equation*} \begin{split} a+b+c+d\\ +e+f+g+h \end{split} \end{equation*}$$ $$\begin{equation*} \begin{split} &a+b+c+d\\ &+e+f+g+h \end{split} \end{equation*}$$ $$\begin{equation*} \begin{split} a+b&+c+d\\ +e+f+g&+h \end{split} \end{equation*}$$
 P: 540 Unfortunately, that gives aexactly the same results as using multline (I did indeed mistakenly type "//" in stead of "\\" in my previous post. I do use "//"). $$\begin{gather*} G:\ \ gravitational\ constant\ (6.672\ 10^{-11}\ Nm^{2}kg^{-2}) \\ line 2 \end{gather*}$$
 Emeritus Sci Advisor PF Gold P: 10,427 Use: $$\begin{multline*} \begin{split} &G:\ \ gravitational\ constant\ (6.672\ 10^{-11}\ Nm^{2}kg^{-2}) \\ &line 2 \end{split} \end{multline*}$$ as I already said. Why on earth are you going to this much trouble just to post text anyway? Why use LaTeX formatting for mostly textual data? - Warren

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