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I was using an external website to preview my LaTeX for a reply in the forums today, and was very frustrated that my LaTeX rendered just fine at https://www.quicklatex.com but would not render at PF. I must have spent at least 10 minutes trying to figure out what I was doing wrong, and finally checked my LaTeX at https://latexeditor.lagrida.com which flagged an incorrect extra opening brace. It turns out that the first website was auto-correcting my LaTeX error by dimming (greying out) that extra leading brace, and not really flagging it for me as an error.
I send these two URLs to newbies when I PM them hints and tips on how to use LaTeX here at PF, and I'm now going to include this subtlety in the behavior of these two websites.
I send these two URLs to newbies when I PM them hints and tips on how to use LaTeX here at PF, and I'm now going to include this subtlety in the behavior of these two websites.
If you have trouble using the Preview feature to check your LaTeX, you can use a website such as https://www.quicklatex.com/ or https://latexeditor.lagrida.com/ to preview your LaTeX before you post it.
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