Timeline for How to ask a good question
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| Sep 15, 2010 at 17:24 | comment | added | Radu GRIGore | @Charles: I didn't test, but that's what the comment on preview inside tex2jax inside MathJax.Hub.Config inside MathJax/config/MathJax.js says. | |
| Sep 15, 2010 at 13:18 | comment | added | Charles Stewart | @Radu: Not that I've seen. | |
| Sep 15, 2010 at 13:00 | comment | added | Radu GRIGore | When MathJax finds a formula in the document it (1) hides it, (2) renders it, and (3) replaces it by the result of rendering. I believe it's possible to configure MathJax to skip (1), so that if it gets stuck at (2) you still see the TeX source. | |
| Sep 15, 2010 at 8:26 | comment | added | Charles Stewart | @Suresh I am able to right click to get the source - Hmm. I've looked again: I get a right menu for mathjax completely hidden under Firefox's default right menu. I can get that menu back, and view source, which appears in a new window. This is a horrible UI: when Mathjax fails, as it fairly frequently does, to render a Latex-formula dense page, looking at the source this way will be very time consuming. But switching Mathjax to output Mathml seems like a workaround. @András: have you tried using the Mathml output? | |
| Sep 15, 2010 at 4:29 | comment | added | Suresh Venkat Mod | edited in the light of the comments, and made it CW. | |
| Sep 15, 2010 at 4:29 | history | edited | Suresh VenkatMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
added 143 characters in body; Post Made Community Wiki
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| Sep 15, 2010 at 2:04 | comment | added | Tsuyoshi Ito | If you agree that using LaTeX is not the only way, I appreciate if you can remove a warning like “If your question [...] doesn't use LaTeX, it's liable to get closed or heavily downvoted.” (By the way, I agree that using LaTeX is a reasonable advice to give in the FAQ because using Unicode characters can be trickier.) | |
| Sep 15, 2010 at 1:21 | comment | added | Suresh Venkat Mod | This is not correct. I am able to right click to get the source for mathjax rendering | |
| Sep 14, 2010 at 19:22 | comment | added | Charles Stewart | I'm another HTML character entities preferer, particularly in qn titles: Mathjax is much flakier, and doesn't have the good property that jsmath has of making the Tex-like source available, either when it fails or in a hover box. Can we change this item to (i) say that html math is ok, and (ii) mention the Mathjax issues? | |
| Sep 14, 2010 at 15:00 | comment | added | András Salamon | Due to ongoing MathJax problems (with mobile devices as well as Firefox, with caches cleared) I'm becoming less excited about using LaTeX notation. On my phone the various MathJax components often time out, leaving error messages instead of formulas, so I'm starting to avoid LaTeX markup for variable names and smaller bits of notation. When LaTeX markup is used in the title or in key parts of the question, what remains is often incomprehensible. | |
| Sep 14, 2010 at 11:54 | comment | added | Tsuyoshi Ito | @Suresh, @Jukka: Thanks for the reply and suggestion. I agree that making variables italic is probably better. I will try it next time I post. | |
| Sep 14, 2010 at 8:19 | comment | added | Jukka Suomela | @Tsuyoshi: Anything is fine as long as the end result looks good. The question that you linked is fairly readable, but I think it would be better if you used italics for symbols. This should be doable in HTML, too. | |
| Sep 14, 2010 at 6:00 | comment | added | Suresh Venkat Mod | actually no that's fine, as long as it's readable. the problem I guess is that people write latex without doing the $..$ enclosure that actually generates the latex. | |
| Sep 14, 2010 at 2:28 | comment | added | Tsuyoshi Ito | For an unknown reason, I prefer HTML to LaTeX, as in cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/716/…. Is it that bad not to use LaTeX? | |
| Sep 13, 2010 at 17:07 | comment | added | Jukka Suomela | Use Latex not only in the body of your question but also in its title. | |
| Sep 13, 2010 at 16:52 | history | answered | Suresh VenkatMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |