latexrender

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  notmuchbetter · Member · Aug 23, 2006 at 6:52 pm

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  Is there any chance of getting latexrender on wordpress.com or some similar latex funcitonality. I’m not aware of any major blog service which offers this. I’d consider getting a paid account with ANYONE who offered latexrender on their blog service. I know I could set up wordpress + latexrender on some internet hosting services … but I’m still too lazy or don’t need latexrender enough to actually set this up.

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  drmike · Member · Aug 23, 2006 at 7:12 pm

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  Best bet would be to send in a Feedback from your dashboard along with a link since you shouldn’t assume folks know what you’re talking about. :)

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  atyourownrisk · Member · Sep 6, 2006 at 6:19 am

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  I agree that it would be a great service to scientists (social and natural), engineers, statisticians, and some quantitative finance academics if a blog/wiki host (I’d prefer wordpress) would provide a way to espress mathematical formulas in a well-established format.

  While most blog/wiki software supports equations in some form, most hosts do not provide the option to access this function in the software. Wikipedia has one of the very few useful working wikis that provides the ability to render math equations from standard LaTeX user input.

  For information on LateX
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX

  For math markup instructions on wikipedia and examples
  http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Formula

  I believe that wordpress supports a latex plugin:
  http://www.sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/
  I don’t know anyone who’s used it, though.

  Rendering math on the web (or IM chat clients) has always been a problem and it affects lots of potential users. For static pages there’re programs like latex2html, which were okay for a long time. For Web II applications with dynamic content, this is not ideal. MathML was specified by the W3C as an XML standard for representing and rendering math. Browser support is poor, and it’s impossible for humans to write, though. For examples check out (with firefox)
  http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/mathml/asciimathdemo.html
  This could work if each blogger ran his own webserver or if the host supported it.

  It would be great if one of the hosts out there found a way to make this work. I would love you (and pay you) until you die or something better comes along.

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  drmike · Member · Sep 6, 2006 at 4:14 pm

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  Then send in your feedback as well. :)

  *sigh* I remember Tex.

  edit: I’m actually tempted to throw this up on my own WPMU install.