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| Guitarist |
 Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:22 am Post subject: More non-Latex codes |
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As the administrators here steadfastly refuse to even investigate the possibly of a Latex capability here, I offer you this.
But first a word or two. The following looks like hard work to execute, and indeed it is. My comments on this are 1) This is a math sub-forum, so some math ought to be contained in each post, this includes symbols and the like, and 2) If you have thought your post through, then the typing process will (should) take less time than the thinking, and anyway 3) I get tired of trying to figure out what, say, sqrt[1 - v^2/c^2] actually looks like, let alone anything more complex, don't you?.
Anyway, here we go. In what follows enclose each number given by &#number;.That semicolon is part of the string, by the way. If you're unsure what I mean, just hit the "quote" button to see the raw text
Capital Greeks Α - Ω are accessed by the set 913 - 937, each in the expected order.
Lower case Greeks α - ω are accessed by the set 945 - 969, again, each in the expected order plus what Latex calls \vartheta ϑ is 977.
Arrows are found in the set 8592 - 8660. You'll probably only need → routinely, which is 8594
I no have no shortcut for the operators (river_rat gave us most of this earlier), so get ready for a list!
∀ = 8704
∂ = 8706
∃ = 8707
∅ = 8709
∇ = 8711
∈ = 8712
∉ = 8713
∋ = 8715
∏ = 8719
∐ = 8720
∑ = 8721
∗ = 8727 (compare with *)
√ = 8730
∝ = 8733
∞ = 8734
∩ = 8745
∪ = 8746
∫ = 8747
≅ = 8773
≠ = 8800
≡ = 8801
≤ = 8804
≥ = 8805
⊂ = 8834
⊃ = 8835
⊄ = 8836
⊆ = 8838
⊇ = 8839
⊕ = 8853
⊗ = 8855
⋅ = 8901
And finally, as you should all know by now, superscripts are found as < sup>thing< /sup> and subscripts as < sub>thing< /sub>
Windows users can also use these shortcuts.
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| serpicojr |
| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:00 am Post subject: |
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| I'm curious--what do the administrators say when the idea of adding latex capability is raised? Is it a matter of effort or cost? |
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| Guitarist |
| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:26 am Post subject: |
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One is generally ignored. Some poster - BenTheMan? (who is no longer active)- even pointed to a coupla sites for help with it. Nothing.
What would be the cost? All Latex sources I know of are free. I'm no computer geek, but I can't imagine the implementation would be that hard. After all, the majority of science sites now have that capability.
Effort there may be. What's that compared, say, to the effort of typing in tedious Unicode codes? It's a one-off. |
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| Absane |
| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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| serpicojr |
| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Just for your reference, tex is the language on which latex is built. Apparently, it sucks to work with tex, while working with latex is quite pleasurable. (I get my kicks in weird ways. I was telling my students today I find polynomial division to be soothing.) So latex is kind of the dumbing down of tex. Colloquially, I believe most people use tex and latex interchangeably. |
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| Guitarist |
| Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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Absane: Yes, I know this site well, I was a contributor there for, oh, 2, 3 years?
Good they now have Latex up. I left because it became a shouting forum, just as this has! |
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| Absane |
| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:28 am Post subject: |
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| Guitarist wrote: |
| Absane: Yes, I know this site well, I was a contributor there for, oh, 2, 3 years? |
What's your name?
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| Good they now have Latex up. I left because it became a shouting forum, just as this has! |
I don't spend much time on any forums now. But lately I have only been interested in hanging out in physics/math forum just to talk about math.
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| Guitarist |
| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:51 am Post subject: |
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| Absane wrote: |
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On sciforums? I cannot conceive of a reason why you would want that information. If you really do, PM me, but you were probably still in short pants when I left!
Anyway, all my posts there used the non-Latex codes presented here. It is my (feeble) understanding that it is impossible (or do I mean undesirable?) to have Latex and Unicode operators functioning simultaneously, so I suspect that my posts there would be all but undecipherable now. |
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| river_rat |
| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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I tend to bounce around between all the science forums i have found - i've found quite a few good ones for mathematics guitarist if you are interested?
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| Guitarist |
| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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| river_rat wrote: |
| I tend to bounce around between all the science forums i have found - i've found quite a few good ones for mathematics guitarist if you are interested? |
Yeah, I might be, although I try to "build relationships" (yuk!) on a particular site if possible.
I've been trying SFN recently, which looked promising, but also has its share of nut-jobs. Is any place free of them? |
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