Re:Mathify – Simple Text Equation to LaTeX
by umanwizard on Sunday March 26, 2017 @12:57PM
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"$$x+\frac{32}{2}$$" is not "almost the same" as "x+32/2".
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Re:Mathify – Simple Text Equation to LaTeX
by IshKebab on Sunday March 26, 2017 @01:41PM
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Using / instead of \frac is by far the biggest difference, so it is "almost the same".
Just wanted to point out that this is not friendly for beginners. A beginner will be lost between a lot of "\frac"s and "{}"s (I don't know the name in English, sorry). Been there
The problem is that this is a really tiny subset of what you can write with LaTeX, even for high school students it won't be enough. I'd much rather use something like https://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php as a beginner.
Yep - even 'min' is missing. `min_` becomes `m \in _`, seemingly no way to force it to work, `{min}` or `\min` don't.
Re:Mathify – Simple Text Equation to LaTeX
by 18nleung on Sunday March 26, 2017 @02:00PM
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{} are "brackets"/"curly brackets" :)
Re:Mathify – Simple Text Equation to LaTeX
by umanwizard on Sunday March 26, 2017 @02:23PM
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No, [ ] are brackets; { } are braces.
(Disambiguating with an adjective does make it ok to use either -- "Curly brackets" are still { }, and "square braces" are still [ ] )
Re:Mathify – Simple Text Equation to LaTeX
by milesrout on Sunday March 26, 2017 @10:02PM
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No, they aren't. () are brackets, [] are square brackets, {} are curly brackets. 'Brackets' always refers to () unless specifically you say 'square'.
Stop imposing your stupid American stuff on people.
I agree with your content, but not your tone. I'd like to add that one often hears "round brackets" as an unambiguous terms for the first category. And where's love for angle brackets <chevrons>?
Re:Mathify – Simple Text Equation to LaTeX
by umanwizard on Sunday March 26, 2017 @11:48PM
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There are substantially more Americans than people in any other English-speaking country, and, to top it off, we're on an American forum.
It's not "stupid" to assume the dialect we're using is American English. Why the aggressiveness?
Re:Mathify – Simple Text Equation to LaTeX
by jsilence on Monday March 27, 2017 @01:54AM
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Because the cultural ignorance you are showing is annoying. There are vastly more people speaking english in the world than there are US Americans. On top of that: Most of the Americans are speaking spanish and portuguese. America != US America for one.
Thanks! :)
Re:Mathify – Simple Text Equation to LaTeX
by milesrout on Sunday March 26, 2017 @10:02PM
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No, they won't.
"x+32/2" and "x+\frac{32}{2}" do different things in LaTeX, but both are correct.
Re:Mathify – Simple Text Equation to LaTeX
by contravariant on Sunday March 26, 2017 @07:56PM
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To be fair, this solution replaces the "$$" with several 10s of kilobytes of javascript.