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Discouraging the use of textual screenshots in questions
I agree. Screenshots of text have no place on this site.
There is simply no reason that plain text should ever be presented as a screenshot, and plenty of reasons why it shouldn't. If you want to ...
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Would the braket extension in MathJax v3 be appropriate and useful for this site?
Just as a place to gather votes as a clear signal:
Yes, the braket extension is appropriate and useful. It should be enabled on this site whenever the MathJax version is upgraded to v3.
(Vote up if ...
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Is MathJax in titles OK?
I would argue that
MathJax in titles should be kept to the minimum required, and as readable as possible, but if it is integral to writing a good title for the question then it should very much stay ...
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How to deal with users that just won't use MathJax?
I see two relevant classes of users here:
The user in question is a relative newcomer, and they've come to rely on other people fixing posts with substantial amounts of mistyped math for them as if ...
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Discouraging the use of textual screenshots in questions
I agree that text should not be a screenshot. A link could refer to the text and the content described.
That elsewhere reference refers indirectly to me, because I am not open to learning mathjax . ...
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Bug in MathJax rendering using Chrome?
Yes, it is a problem with macOS. To fix it,
Right-click on some of the misrendered MathJax.
Click on "Math Settings".
Click on "Math Renderer".
Click on "Common HTML".
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siunitx LaTeX package?
If you convince your administrator to enable mhchem here – chemistry.SE does have it – then you could make use of MathJax/mhchem's \pu command.
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Why can't I write down tilde? Is there any MathJax syntax?
∼ is a small space, while \tilde{} is an ornament of a character. Use instead e.g. \sim. ...
QmechanicMod
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MathJax on Meta
Typically if MathJax is enabled on the main site, we turn it on for meta too. I'm not at all sure why it wasn't done here. No doubt there was a good reason (or at least an understandable one, such as "...
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The scope of \newcommand changed
OK, I've gone through the list of answered questions. There should be no more broken LaTeX caused by this change on the site, but if you find any more, fix it on sight!
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An alternative to MathJax in chat
The Unicode character set contains most of the characters that are needed to construct equations. For example you can write:
ds² = -(1 - 2GM/c²r)c²dt² + (1 - 2GM/c²r)⁻¹ dr² + r²dθ² + r² sin²(θ)dφ²
...
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Should I edit question to format equation linked as image in MathJax?
Yes, you should edit and/or leave a comment in these cases because
Images are fixed size and will display poorly in small browser windows, particularly on phones.
MathJax is searchable, although the ...
ACuriousMindMod
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The proposed changes to the text editor would break this site
Here is one option put forward by the SE developers: switching from MathJax to prosemirror-math. For a quick look at how it works, I'll just pull this from their readme:
Examples
Unlike other editors,...
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Is MathJax in titles OK?
Yes, mathjax in titles is allowed and even encouraged for better readability/clarity. The main priority is to optimize the user experience for Phys.SE. The HNQ is separate from the Phys.SE and has ...
QmechanicMod
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How to deal with users that just won't use MathJax?
The hat fits me, and also it would fit older users . Everybody ages, and with age memory is not the same, particularly short term memory. I do try to use dollar signs around simple formulae, (since I ...
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Should the tags (mathjax) and (tex) on meta be synonyms?
Okay, I have created a synonym tex→mathjax. The 2 tags are not yet merged, so if the community feels strongly about it one way or another, speak up: It can still be undone.
QmechanicMod
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Is it necessary to use heavy maths and math Jax?
No, I don't think it's necessary to use MathJax. In fact, one of our top answerers here doesn't use MathJax at all. This is mostly because answers, and questions, are based in physics and not in maths ...
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Abbrevation and/or warning for $\langle$ and $\rangle$ commands
I think most experienced users of this site would agree that things like "$|\psi>$" often look ugly enough for one's eyes to bleed at least a little. But the minor level of annoyance from looking ...
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Is it possible to have the editor and preview in a side by side mode? Or maybe just a scrollbar in the preview?
Almost certainly not; changing the editor is a network-wide change which requires a lot of investment in usability testing across multiple browsers and platforms..
See previously, previously. You ...
robMod
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MathJax usage for questions by new users
Of course I do not know the voting behaviour of other people, but I think you're inferring causation where there is only correlation. The following things are probably true:
Questions by new users ...
ACuriousMindMod
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On Bra & ket notation
the mathjax does not support the necessary packages
This isn't true - MathJax has full support for the \langle, | and ...
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Using chemical formulas
The $\ce$ command is provided by the mhchem package, which is available in MathJax
but currently not loaded by default on Physics or Physics Meta.
A workaround is ...
robMod
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MathJax does not show the equations properly
This seems to be caused by the use of \label{}. Here is your first equation, with and without that command:
$$ h(t)\nabla \times \tilde {\mathbf H} = \mathbf J +\...
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Does math in my questions need to be in the form of MathJax?
However, does this mean that without use of MathJax, my question will never be answered?
The short answer is no, it doesn't mean that.
But there's more going on here than just MathJax. From what you ...
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Abbrevation and/or warning for $\langle$ and $\rangle$ commands
kerning, noun: in typesetting, the horizontal distance between symbols
keming, noun: poor-quality kerning
I've had many mentors who knew less about typesetting than I did. I put them in the same ...
robMod
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Chat does not support LaTeX input
You need to enable it manually on the client side, see this mother meta post:
ChatJax, a set of bookmarklets by robjohn to enable dynamic MathJax support in chat. Commonly used in the ...
ACuriousMindMod
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Update to Mathjax 2.7.2 please
Sorry about that. I didn't realize the beta was over.
We're on v2.7.2 network-wide now.
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Posting questions with math symbols
This site has MathJax enabled, which means that you can essentially use any (reasonable) LaTeX command inside dollar and double-dollar signs (or indeed inside equation or align environments, among ...
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