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    Default July 17th, 2011, 04:30 PM
    I just picked up a post in Math suggesting this is the case, and after a bit of experimentation, this appears to be largely so.

    It would be kind of nice if this could be fixed up pretty soon. Especially as I and others nagged InSanity to implement LaTex here, and more especially as I know he worked really hard to get it up for us.

    We were all very grateful for his efforts, so please don't let them be blown away, just because we happen to have proud new owners of this site


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    July 17th, 2011, 04:42 PM
    I see what you mean. The new Admins are planning on moving to vBulletin sometime tomorrow, which presumably would require latex to be set up from scratch. As they have already worked on Latex since moving to the new servers (with collaboration with (In)Sanity AFAIK), I am sure that they'll make it one of their priorities.


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    July 17th, 2011, 06:20 PM
    I'm guessing you saw my post on the TeX thread in the Mathematics sub-section! Yes, I was trying to use it to type formulae in response to some posts in the physics sub-section, but the TeX wouldn't render properly- it kept on appearing as (unparseable or potentially dangerous TeX formatting); or a phrase similar to that. It would be useful if it could be fixed soon, I sure do like my TeX formulae! However, I do understand that moving servers etc etc is a long and hard process on a forum as large as TheScienceForum.
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    July 17th, 2011, 06:22 PM
    It seems to be working, please ensure the option "Disable BBCode in this post" is not checked when posting.

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    July 17th, 2011, 06:36 PM
    Formulae such as this:

    F = \frac{dp}{dt}

    will not appear, when wrapping them with TeX tags this appears:

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    July 18th, 2011, 08:22 AM
    OK, functionality is extremely limited. In just 5 min I found these

    \O = empty set works

    \mathbb{R} = set of reals works

    \frac{dx}{dy} = Leibniz notation for differential DOESN'T work

    \partial_{\mu} = indexed partial derivative DOESN'T work

    \mathcal{H} = calligraphic H works

    A \subseteq B = arbitrary subset works

    A \subsetneq B = proper subset DOESN'T work

    A \ne B = not equal DOESN'T work

    \pm A = plus or minus DOESN'T work

    \overline{x} = bar x DOESN'T work

    Less than 50% functionality!! If this is replicated over the whole set this will make the Math Forum virtually unreadable.

    Please fix up .
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    July 18th, 2011, 08:45 AM
    To help assist in this, here is a list of the modules associated with LaTex that the forum use to run.


    Code:
    ii  chktex                            1.6.3-2                      Finds typographic errors in LaTeX
ii  console-common                    0.7.80                       basic infrastructure for text console configuration
ii  groff-base                        1.18.1.1-21                  GNU troff text-formatting system (base system components)
ii  latex-beamer                      3.07-1                       LaTeX class to produce presentations
ii  latex-xcolor                      2.11-1                       Easy driver-independent TeX class for color
ii  libhtml-format-perl               2.04-2                       format HTML syntax trees into text, PostScript or RTF
ii  libhtml-parser-perl               3.56-1+lenny1                A collection of modules that parse HTML text documents
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl            1.05-4                       Using libc functions for internationalization in Perl
ii  libnewt0.52                       0.52.2-11.3+lenny1           Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - text mode windowing with slang
ii  libpango1.0-0                     1.20.5-6                     Layout and rendering of internationalized text
ii  libtext-charwidth-perl            0.04-5+b1                    get display widths of characters on the terminal
ii  libtext-iconv-perl                1.7-1+b1                     converts between character sets in Perl
ii  libtext-wrapi18n-perl             0.06-6                       internationalized substitute of Text::Wrap
ii  mawk                              1.3.3-11.1                   a pattern scanning and text processing language
ii  preview-latex-style               11.83-7.3                    extraction of elements from LaTeX documents as graphics
ii  spamassassin                      3.2.5-2+lenny3               Perl-based spam filter using text analysis
ii  tetex-base                        2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2         TeX Live: teTeX transitional package
ii  tetex-bin                         2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2         TeX Live: teTeX transitional package
ii  tetex-extra                       2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2         TeX Live: teTeX transitional package
ii  tex-common                        1.11.3                       common infrastructure for building and installing TeX
ii  texlive                           2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2         TeX Live: A decent selection of the TeX Live packages
ii  texlive-base                      2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2         TeX Live: Essential programs and files
ii  texlive-base-bin                  2007.dfsg.2-4+lenny3         TeX Live: Essential binaries
ii  texlive-base-bin-doc              2007.dfsg.2-4+lenny3         TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-base-bin
ii  texlive-bibtex-extra              2007.dfsg.17-1~lenny02       TeX Live: Extra BibTeX styles
ii  texlive-common                    2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2         TeX Live: Base component
ii  texlive-doc-base                  2007.dfsg.2-1                TeX Live: Base documentation
ii  texlive-extra-utils               2007.dfsg.2-4+lenny3         TeX Live: TeX auxiliary programs
ii  texlive-font-utils                2007.dfsg.2-4+lenny3         TeX Live: TeX font-related programs
ii  texlive-fonts-extra               2007.dfsg.17-1~lenny02       TeX Live: Extra fonts
ii  texlive-fonts-extra-doc           2007.dfsg.17-1~lenny02       TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-fonts-extra
ii  texlive-fonts-recommended         2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2         TeX Live: Recommended fonts
ii  texlive-fonts-recommended-doc     2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2         TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-fonts-recommended
ii  texlive-generic-extra             2007.dfsg.17-1~lenny02       TeX Live: Miscellaneous extra generic macros
ii  texlive-generic-recommended       2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2         TeX Live: Miscellaneous generic macros
ii  texlive-humanities                2007.dfsg.17-1~lenny02       TeX Live: LaTeX support for the humanities
ii  texlive-humanities-doc            2007.dfsg.17-1~lenny02       TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-humanities
ii  texlive-lang-croatian             2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1         TeX Live: Croatian
ii  texlive-lang-cyrillic             2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1         TeX Live: Cyrillic
ii  texlive-lang-czechslovak          2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1         TeX Live: Czech/Slovak
ii  texlive-lang-danish               2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1         TeX Live: Danish
ii  texlive-lang-dutch                2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1         TeX Live: Dutch
ii  texlive-lang-finnish              2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1         TeX Live: Finnish
ii  texlive-lang-french               2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1         TeX Live: French
ii  texlive-lang-german               2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1         TeX Live: German
ii  texlive-lang-greek                2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1         TeX Live: Greek typesetting
ii  texlive-lang-hungarian            2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1         TeX Live: Hungarian
ii  texlive-lang-italian              2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1         TeX Live: Italian
ii  texlive-lang-latin                2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1         TeX Live: Latin
ii  texlive-lang-mongolian            2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1         TeX Live: Mongolian
ii  texlive-lang-norwegian            2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1         TeX Live: Norwegian
ii  texlive-lang-other                2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1         TeX Live: Other hyphenation files
ii  texlive-lang-polish               2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1         TeX Live: Polish
ii  texlive-lang-portuguese           2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1         TeX Live: Portuguese
ii  texlive-lang-spanish              2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1         TeX Live: Spanish
ii  texlive-lang-swedish              2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1         TeX Live: Swedish
ii  texlive-lang-vietnamese           2007.dfsg.4-1+lenny1         TeX Live: Vietnamese
ii  texlive-latex-base                2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2         TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages
ii  texlive-latex-base-doc            2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2         TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-latex-base
ii  texlive-latex-extra               2007.dfsg.17-1~lenny02       TeX Live: LaTeX supplementary packages
ii  texlive-latex-extra-doc           2007.dfsg.17-1~lenny02       TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-latex-extra
ii  texlive-latex-recommended         2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2         TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packages
ii  texlive-latex-recommended-doc     2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2         TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-latex-recommended
ii  texlive-math-extra                2007.dfsg.17-1~lenny02       TeX Live: Advanced math typesetting
ii  texlive-pictures                  2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2         TeX Live: Packages for drawings graphics
ii  texlive-pictures-doc              2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2         TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-pictures
ii  texlive-pstricks                  2007.dfsg.17-1~lenny02       TeX Live: PSTricks packages
ii  texlive-pstricks-doc              2007.dfsg.17-1~lenny02       TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-pstricks
ii  texlive-publishers                2007.dfsg.17-1~lenny02       TeX Live: Support for publishers
ii  texlive-publishers-doc            2007.dfsg.17-1~lenny02       TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-publishers
ii  texpower                          0.2-7                        Macros for creating professional presentations with LaTeX
ii  texpower-manual                   0.2-7                        manual for the TeXpower macro bundle
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    July 19th, 2011, 02:57 AM
    This issue has been fixed.
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    July 19th, 2011, 06:22 AM
    Thank you very much, now my post above makes little sense as the TeX formulae is appearing correctly! So, just to let confused people know, it originally said (unparseable or potentially dangerous TeX formula). I'll have to try out other combinations of TeX formatting to see if it all works good.
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    July 19th, 2011, 11:24 AM
    With the new forum software, you can also double-click an existing equation and the code for that equation will be presented.
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    July 19th, 2011, 02:10 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Beaker View Post
    With the new forum software, you can also double-click an existing equation and the code for that equation will be presented.
    Ah, I like that feature a lot actually, very good.
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