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Re:LaTeX on Blogger by nbpoole on Wednesday February 23, 2011 @11:56AM (#2254774)
He suggests switching from Wordpress.COM, Wordpress's hosting service, which presumably doesn't provide that plugin.

Edit: As jamesgeck0 points out, Wordpress.com does support LaTeX: http://en.support.wordpress.com/latex/

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Re:LaTeX on Blogger by jamesgeck0 on Wednesday February 23, 2011 @12:12PM (#2254845)
Wordpress.com not only provides LaTeX support[1], but also renders LaTeX as an image file so that it works for people not using Javascript.

1. http://en.support.wordpress.com/latex/

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Re:LaTeX on Blogger by mnnttl on Wednesday February 23, 2011 @12:21PM (#2254881)
But the Wordpress.com support of LaTeX is very limited. For one thing, it uses a LaTeX to image converter and the images always pixelate when you zoom in. Another advantage of using MathJax is that, right clicking any equation gives the LaTeX source. And lack of good LaTeX support on Wordpress.com was just an observation, I had no intention of comparing them!
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Re:LaTeX on Blogger by itsnotvalid on Wednesday February 23, 2011 @12:00PM (#2254790)
In that case it should support linking a js source file usin g <script> tag, which is used in his blogger trial. I guees the same thing should apply to wordpress.COM too.
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Re:LaTeX on Blogger by nbpoole on Wednesday February 23, 2011 @12:05PM (#2254804)
No. For security reasons, Wordpress.com doesn't allow you to run Javascript.

See http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/

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Re:LaTeX on Blogger by itsnotvalid on Wednesday February 23, 2011 @02:56PM (#2255528)
Oh so only VIP users (like techcrunch) could have that. So somehow *.blogspot.com have nailed that security problem.
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Re:LaTeX on Blogger by mnnttl on Wednesday February 23, 2011 @03:49PM (#2255737)
Never new that Techcrunch was hosted on wp.com!
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