No Latex Support in Blog Entries?

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No support for LaTeX in blog entries has been confirmed, as users experience issues with generating content. This limitation leads to frustration among users attempting to use LaTeX for formatting. A suggestion was made to include a warning at the top of the blog page to inform users about the lack of LaTeX functionality, potentially saving time and effort. Additionally, the discussion touched on the ability to upload images to blogs, indicating that while LaTeX is unsupported, image posting is functional.

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I just wrote my first blog entry (just a short test) but it seems that Latex does not work. I simply get a message it is generating but no result is ever given.

Is Latex not supported in blog entries? :cry:

MJ

Oh, never mind I just saw that there is already a topic open on this issue. Feel free to delete this topic.
 
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Hmm...since we get this question often, and people usually spend a lot of time attempting to compose an entry using latex before finding out they can't do it and reading the feedback threads on it, maybe there's a way to post a note at the top of the blog page warning that latex won't function in the blogs? I don't know if that's possible or not, but if it is, it would save a lot of people the trouble of trying to use it.
 
My extension now has an upload to imageshack function. A bit more minor crap & i'll release it. You can post images on blogs, right?
 

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