Comments on: Comparison of online compilers http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/?p=167 Showcase for LatexRender Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:43:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Steve http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/?p=167&cpage=1#comment-4708 Steve Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:13:08 +0000 http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/?p=167#comment-4708 Jonathan, unfortunately many bloggers can't follow your instructions to add JavaScript since all they can do is add text to an already constructed page. I know CodeCogs had problems with the encoding but I don't recall how they solved it; mathTeX & mimeTeX must also be able to cope with this. The ability for bloggers to be able to write <em>img src = ...</em> and get a mathematical expression is valuable especially for people like Blogger users who have no access to the workings of the blog. <i>Note: Jonathan Fine is the author of <a href="http://mathtran.open.ac.uk/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">MathTran</a></i> Jonathan, unfortunately many bloggers can’t follow your instructions to add JavaScript since all they can do is add text to an already constructed page. I know CodeCogs had problems with the encoding but I don’t recall how they solved it; mathTeX & mimeTeX must also be able to cope with this.

The ability for bloggers to be able to write img src = … and get a mathematical expression is valuable especially for people like Blogger users who have no access to the workings of the blog.

Note: Jonathan Fine is the author of MathTran

]]> By: Jonathan Fine http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/?p=167&cpage=1#comment-4707 Jonathan Fine Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:14:14 +0000 http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/?p=167#comment-4707 Thank you for the survey, Steve. Really useful. The problem with '+' is due to URI encoding. One needs URI encoding if the TeX source contains new lines. MathTran and, I presume, SITMO, use the standard %NN URI encoding. If you follow the instructions on http://www.mathtran.org/wiki/index.php/TeX_image then you'll find JavaScript that solves this problem. At present there is not a standard for URI encoding that is specially adapted to TeX notation mathematics. The W3C standard for URI encoding is a little verbose. Thank you for the survey, Steve. Really useful.

The problem with ‘+’ is due to URI encoding. One needs URI encoding if the TeX source contains new lines. MathTran and, I presume, SITMO, use the standard %NN URI encoding.

If you follow the instructions on http://www.mathtran.org/wiki/index.php/TeX_image then you’ll find JavaScript that solves this problem.

At present there is not a standard for URI encoding that is specially adapted to TeX notation mathematics. The W3C standard for URI encoding is a little verbose.

]]> By: Cameron Bracken http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/?p=167&cpage=1#comment-4706 Cameron Bracken Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:35:08 +0000 http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/?p=167#comment-4706 Great tip! I was never really sure why those two services rendered incorrectly. Great tip! I was never really sure why those two services rendered incorrectly.

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