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January 04, 2018, 04:21:59 PM

Matt Wilkinson

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Posting a mathematical formula
« on: January 04, 2018, 04:21:59 PM »

To help contributors who want to include formulae in their posts I've installed a program called 'mimetex' which takes LaTeX formatted text and produces a gif image.  It works like this:

[ img]/cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^xe^{-t^2}dt [/ img]

which without the tag spaces gives:



Please test it out using the post preview.  See here http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html

Matt