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Harry Gindi comments on "When should I use jsMath?" (1055)

Harry Gindi — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:55:13 -0800

Maybe it's just my monitor, I dunno.

Harald Hanche-Olsen comments on "When should I use jsMath?" (1032)

Harald Hanche-Olsen — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:41:29 -0800

@Anton: Yes, much better. And I had noticed the jsMath box in the corner, but it never occured to me to click on it. Duh. @Scott: I tried putting it down to 100%, then went to see the post where Harry had problems. It works fine for me.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "When should I use jsMath?" (1026)

Anton Geraschenko — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:14:45 -0800

@hanche: you're right about jsMath sticking out too much. I've changed the default scaling from 133% (I don't know where we got this number to start with) to 110%. Is that better? 100% looks too small to me. If you decide you want to use a custom scaling, you can click the little "jsMath" box in the lower right-hand corner of your browser, then click the "Options" button and change the number in the "Scale all mathematics to" box.

Scott Morrison comments on "When should I use jsMath?" (1025)

Scott Morrison — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:09:38 -0800

We can crank down the text size for jsMath, if people think that would help. You can set this in your preferences, and we can probably modify the defaults server-side.

I heard that Harry Ghindi is using a smaller font size in jsMath, but that this caused some problems.

Harald Hanche-Olsen comments on "When should I use jsMath?" (1023)

Harald Hanche-Olsen — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:44:47 -0800

Personally, I think the jsMath output sticks out from the text too much. It's using a much bigger font than the text font, after all. So I think your current practice is good. I agree that mixing jsMath and html math in the same post looks bad.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "When should I use jsMath?" (1022)

Anton Geraschenko — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:29:53 -0800

If I can get away with it, I try to use basic html markup and html symbols instead of jsMath (example). The reasoning is that on some computers it takes jsMath some nontrivial amount of time to convert the math. If I'm writing something complicated enough that I need to use jsMath, I use it consistently thoughout the post (I don't mix html markup and jsMath).

But I feel like jsMath looks nicer and is easier to read than html. Should I keep using html, or should I just switch to using jsMath completely?