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LaTeX symbols

Hello. I'd like to add an alternative layout for the LaTeX symbols. There is a sketch at en:Table of LaTeX symbols ia:Wikipedia:LaTeX symbols. I think that this layout would be very helpful for many people. What is your opinion? --Julian 00:53, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Very nice layout! Helder 01:23, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Converting LaTeX to SVG

I posted this suggestion at the talk page on Wikipedia. If you have any suggestions, please respond there. Ryan Reich 00:11, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

some vandalism

There is some spam/vandalism with some "kpss"-links on this help page, which sometimes replaced old links. Example: [1]. I currently don't have time to search all original link targets. --95.208.4.121 21:25, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Results of a formula

I am working on Tables for a Wiki that I am wondering if i could get the results to display. this article appears to work for displaying the formula itself. I am building a Template and when an editor/creator fills in the field of the template, it will populate a cell in the table with the value. --Christopher.perkins 18:07, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

For doing computations see Help:Calculation and mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions. The syntax of the formulas is different from that for displaying a formula .--Patrick (talk) 21:02, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Long arrows

How can that ugly rendering of the long arrows be fixed? -- 79.217.232.40 20:01, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

For reference: TeX to SVG via DVI and EPS

Here’s an alternative way of going from TeX to SVG, of some use in commutative diagrams. It’s not useful for most purposes, hence I’m removing it from the main page (as I was the one who put it there), but is of some reference value, so I include it here:

latex comm.tex
dvips -E -y 2500 -o comm.eps comm.dvi
eps2eps -dNOCACHE comm.eps comm2.eps
pstoedit -f sk comm2.eps comm.sk
inkscape -z -f comm.sk -l comm.svg
# pstoedit -f svg comm2.eps comm.svg # this may also work

“These produce a DVI file, convert it to EPS (rescaling by 2.5x), convert fonts to outlines, and convert to SVG via Sketch. One advantage is that rescaling makes smaller or more complex diagrams more legible, as xy-pic normally sizes for printed matter.”

Nbarth 11:06, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

please, add support for comparision symbols!

those symbols are in unicode and a way much easier to input than use google to find some indirect way to math-syntax help! symbols are "≤" and "≥" Tex was designed for old-time punch cards, that lacked maaaany symbols. Now that symbols are given, please make use of them!

description for \left| and \right|  ???

no help on "absolute value" standard math function. and shouldn't it be in TeX somthing like \abs{value} ?

Displaying ampersand (&)

When I try \&, I get a can't parse error. How does one get a displayed ampersand?

Thanks. Russ Abbott 04:01, 17 May 2011 (UTC)