Need LaTeX commands for tables, I've looked up some but not working

[benorin]

I've looked up two different LaTeX references for Table commands and have been lead to believe that this might work but not only does it not appear as a table it doesn't even display greek letters or fractions just spits out commands. Help please?

|render=<math>
\begin{array}{ l| |c|c|c|c|c }

\theta & 0 & \tfrac{\pi}{6} & \tfrac{\pi}{4} & \tfrac{\pi}{3} & \tfrac{\pi}{2} \\ \sin\theta & 1  & 2  &  3 & 4  & 5   \\ \cos\theta & 6  & 7   & 8   & 9   & 10   \\ \tan\theta & 11   & 12   & 13   & 14  & 15   \\ \end{array} </math>

 

[Ibix]

$$\begin{array}{ l| |c|c|c|c|c }

\theta & 0 & \tfrac{\pi}{6} & \tfrac{\pi}{4} & \tfrac{\pi}{3} & \tfrac{\pi}{2} \\ \sin\theta & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 \\ \cos\theta & 6 & 7 & 8 & 9 & 10 \\ \tan\theta & 11 & 12 & 13 & 14 & 15 \\ \end{array}$$

Copied and pasted, only replacing the HTML <math> tags with two dollars, and it seems to work ok here. So your LaTeX is fine. I take it this is an Insight you are writing?

 

[benorin]

I thought it might be appropriate to make it an insight, was just a memory trick for the trig table. My students in Calc always loved it

 

[Ibix]

So I just tried creating a new Insight and pasting your code in, and sure enough it doesn't work. The problem seems to be the newline after the begin{array} line. The Insights editor treats a newline as a paragraph end and inserts a </p><p>, and that's breaking MathJax, I think. So simply putting the whole table code on to one line fixes it.

 

[benorin]

@Ibix I submitted my article for review but don't see the Request for review post in insight and Blog Development sub forum, I submitted it twice, my bad

edit: it's called "A Trick to Memorizing Trig Special Angle Values Table"

 

[Ibix]

Can't help with that, I'm afraid - I'm just a normal user, but was at a bit of a loose end today so played around with your code. See what @Greg Bernhardt says.