Doc Al said:
Maybe -Job- has some ideas about how to fix the Latex preview... :!)
Does any know how it worked before?
And, possibly, where specifically it is broken?
Otherwise, it seems it's not asking for a fix but for a new solution.
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ranger said:
I think Greg mentioned that having latex preview would create the burden of extra/wasted bandwidth.
I recall this thread...
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=144652
In my opinion, [tex]\LaTeX[/tex] support is very important. It is a feature that attracted me to PF.
I think that [tex]\LaTeX[/tex] support while composing replies is also important... especially when it was feature that was available before. These days, I am less likely to post a reply to a post which could benefit from the use of [tex]\LaTeX[/tex] because of the broken preview. If I am so compelled to compose an answer, I'll write it locally on my computer, then recode the tags for posting to PF... but that's sometimes proves too much trouble.
(While I'm on my soap box, I'd like to suggest support for SVG and for something like LiveGraphics3D (a .jar file from
http://www.vis.uni-stuttgart.de/~kraus/LiveGraphics3D/ which could be hosted on the PF server)... as seen on MathWorld, e.g.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Hyperboloid.html ) or possibly JavaViewLib for Maple
http://www.javaview.de/maple/index.html )
Pictures are worth a thousand words.
Interactive animations or visualizations in 3D... are worth a lot more.