tea.mathoverflow.net - Discussion Feed (Use of LaTeX in closed questions) Sun, 04 Nov 2018 13:36:35 -0800 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.9 & Feed Publisher WillieWong comments on "Use of LaTeX in closed questions" (19478) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1400/use-of-latex-in-closed-questions/?Focus=19478#Comment_19478 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1400/use-of-latex-in-closed-questions/?Focus=19478#Comment_19478 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 03:13:47 -0700 WillieWong To illustrate Angelo's comment: Equation editor is one that has been passed around quite often over at MSE.

]]> Asaf Karagila comments on "Use of LaTeX in closed questions" (19473) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1400/use-of-latex-in-closed-questions/?Focus=19473#Comment_19473 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1400/use-of-latex-in-closed-questions/?Focus=19473#Comment_19473 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:54:42 -0700 Asaf Karagila I can testify that in our university physics students, for example, are required to submit their homework in LaTeX from the first year, so physics students know [bad] LaTeX.

(On the other hand, mathematics students are not required to know anything about using LaTeX until well into their M.Sc.)

]]> Angelo comments on "Use of LaTeX in closed questions" (19472) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1400/use-of-latex-in-closed-questions/?Focus=19472#Comment_19472 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1400/use-of-latex-in-closed-questions/?Focus=19472#Comment_19472 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 08:03:34 -0700 Angelo David White comments on "Use of LaTeX in closed questions" (19471) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1400/use-of-latex-in-closed-questions/?Focus=19471#Comment_19471 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1400/use-of-latex-in-closed-questions/?Focus=19471#Comment_19471 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 07:58:24 -0700 David White Henry Cohn comments on "Use of LaTeX in closed questions" (19470) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1400/use-of-latex-in-closed-questions/?Focus=19470#Comment_19470 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1400/use-of-latex-in-closed-questions/?Focus=19470#Comment_19470 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 06:30:31 -0700 Henry Cohn Every so often I see a question like http://mathoverflow.net/questions/101215/, which asks for a rational function to be simplified. What mystifies me about it is that the math is in LaTeX (not just dollar signs, but \dfrac), when I would have thought LaTeX was a much more exotic skill than algebra. Of course it's not a difficult skill, but it's still the sort of thing one would either have to know in advance or look up at the time of asking the question. Am I missing something, for example an easy way to get LaTeX into MO questions? I guess in principle it could be a sign of trolling, but it doesn't look like that to me.

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