is latex support included by default on free blogs?

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  gergonne · Member · Jun 26, 2014 at 12:46 pm

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  Is latex support included by default on free blogs? I just created a new free blog and tried some very simple latex content in the first post but there was no attempt to parse it, i.e. $a = a$ shows up literally.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 26, 2014 at 4:05 pm

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  Hi there,
  Does this help at all? http://en.support.wordpress.com/latex/
  Note I’ll tag this thread for a Staff follow-up too. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Jun 26, 2014 at 4:23 pm

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  Hi there,

  Latex is available for all blogs hosted here at WordPress.com. As timethief mentioned, we have a support page with details about using Latex here: LaTeX

  We aren’t able to provide extensive support for Latex syntax, but if you’re having trouble getting it working I’m happy to help with that. Please be sure to include $latex at the beginning of your code and $ at the end, like this:

  $latex your-latex-code-here$

  If that isn’t working for you, please let me know.

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  gergonne · Member · Jun 26, 2014 at 5:44 pm

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  Thanks to both of you .. I was missing the ‘latex’ after the first $ sign. It doesn’t seem to work in the title of a post, but can live without that (although it would be nice to have there again).