Forum Bugs: Fixing Apostrophe & Greek Letter Issues

[Hurkyl]

Bug #1: If the LaTeX source to an image contains an apostrophe, you cannot click the image to see the source. (I imagine the apostrophe is causing javascript errors by closing a string literal)

Example: $f'(x) = 0$

Bug #2: The forum code is too liberal with escaping characters: in particular, you cannot print a Greek letter with α because the forum software happily escapes the ampersand. Fixing this bug would be nice because it's quicker to type α than $\alpha$, and would reduce the number of LaTeX images in posts.


I know these have been around for a while; are there plans to fix them, or was it decided that it's not worth the effort?

 

[Hootenanny]

I was wandering how do you type superscript letters in you post, because at the moment I'm using latex which slows things down a little?

~H

 

[Hurkyl]

[ sup ] ... [ /sup ]

 

[Hootenanny]

[ sup ] ... [ /sup ]

Thanks for that Hurkyl, seem obvious now...

~H

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

HTML entity names were disabled in 3.5

You can use &# 913; for alpha and such Α

 

[quantumdude]

Old threads in s.p.r./s.p.s. are a mess. New ones seem to be OK.

Example: https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=23683