Latex equation in text widget

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  josebrox · Member · Apr 25, 2009 at 10:33 am

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  Hi!

  I want to add a text widget at my slidebar column, with a mathematical equation on it. I tried to write it with the usual command $latex latex-equation$, but it doesn’t work (it does not parse it, it just writes the literal phrase!).

  How can I do it?

  Thanks!
  Jose Brox

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  ellaella · Member · Apr 25, 2009 at 12:28 pm

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  Please don’t post the same thing twice. A quick forum search turns up many threads — and there might be others with a different spelling or with other words — and perhaps one or more will be of help.

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/search.php?q=latex

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  josebrox · Member · Apr 25, 2009 at 1:21 pm

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  Thanks, but I actually browsed through all that before posting and didn’t find an answer to my problem.

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  ellaella · Member · Apr 25, 2009 at 1:54 pm

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  Did you search the FAQ?

  LaTeX

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  josebrox · Member · Apr 25, 2009 at 2:28 pm

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  Yes, I did too, but it is pretty basic; nothing about text widgets there!

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Apr 25, 2009 at 2:54 pm

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  I just did this search (putting this in Google search bar): site:https://en.forums.wordpress.com/ latex in widget
  You might take a look, because I don’t know anything about latex. I didn’t see anything helpful to you but maybe different search terms??? Otherwise I think you should contact support.

  I tried the sample code from the support section in my test blog and it works in posts, but not in text widget. I only tried it in ChaoticSoul.

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  josebrox · Member · Apr 26, 2009 at 3:42 pm

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  Thanks, 1tess. I’ve written to support, do you know where should I expect them to answer? To my email or to some place on my blog/wordpress account?

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Apr 26, 2009 at 4:22 pm

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  You’ll get an email. Usually they answer quickly, but it’s Sunday so may be slower.

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  josebrox · Member · Apr 27, 2009 at 3:37 pm

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  I already have my answer:

  Latex is not implemented on text widgets.

  So, if anyone has the same problem, here goes my (somewhat crappy) solution:

  1. Get your equation as a picture (write it in WinEdt or in a wordpress post and printscreen-it).
  2. Import your image-equation in a wordpress post, give it the format you want it to have in your text widget.
  3. Go to html vision and copy the full image code.
  4. Paste the code in the text widget.
  5. If having formatting problems in the sidebar, put another, empty text widget between your equation text widget and the rest, that should reformat the sidebar.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Apr 27, 2009 at 4:34 pm

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  Sorry the answer was not what you wanted, but your solution looks pretty good. Thanks for posting.