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I'm hoping we can get the same math support that other SE sites (math.SE in particular) are making use of. Does anyone know how to enable this ?

Here's a test to see if the current system works by default: $t^2$

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    $\begingroup$ Without LaTeX support, I would probably heavily favour MathOverflow instead. $\endgroup$
    – András Salamon
    Aug 16, 2010 at 21:52
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    $\begingroup$ The other sites do have the support, so it's not technically difficult. I've also asked a question on meta.stackoverflow about this. $\endgroup$
    – Suresh Venkat
    Aug 16, 2010 at 21:54
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    $\begingroup$ After just a few questions and answers, I am ready to buckle: dear moderators, PLEEEEASE, pretty please, pretty please with sprinkles and unicorns on top, turn on TeX support! How on earth is one supposed to convey anything in TCS without at least a few Greek letters, reasonable-looking sub/superscripts, and summation/binomials/ceiling&floor/top&bottom/arrows/models/turnstile/subset/square-root/infinity? $\endgroup$
    – András Salamon
    Aug 17, 2010 at 1:26
  • $\begingroup$ András, it took a few days for all the other sites, so we might need to be a little patient :). At least technically it seems merely to be a matter of turning on a flag for this subdomain. $\endgroup$
    – Suresh Venkat
    Aug 17, 2010 at 3:19
  • $\begingroup$ Just posted a question on meta.math: meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/671/… $\endgroup$
    – Suresh Venkat
    Aug 17, 2010 at 22:34

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Alright, community support for this looks pretty high.

I've enabled Tex.

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  • $\begingroup$ Great, many thanks! $\endgroup$
    – Jukka Suomela
    Aug 19, 2010 at 20:36
  • $\begingroup$ Huge kudos! Thanks! $\endgroup$
    – Michaël Cadilhac
    Aug 21, 2010 at 18:17
  • $\begingroup$ It's working great -- thank you. $\endgroup$
    – András Salamon
    Aug 24, 2010 at 12:54
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This discussion on meta.math appears to have a solution to the problem, and in fact Geoff Dalgas is one of our moderators too. Geoff, can we have math markup enabled for this site ?

Update: in the meantime, we can use John Gietzen's greasemonkey script directly (if you use firefox). I have it installed and can see the $t^2$ in the original question.

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  • $\begingroup$ I've tried installing greasemonkey as well as the script, but I still see the dollar sign notation... Hopefully the LaTeX switch is flipped soon! $\endgroup$
    – Daniel Apon
    Aug 17, 2010 at 17:17
  • $\begingroup$ you have to edit the script to include cstheory.stackexchange.com and meta.cstheory.stackexchange.com on the list of applicable sites. $\endgroup$
    – Suresh Venkat
    Aug 17, 2010 at 17:21
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MathOverflow just switched to MathJax. It looks really nice.

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  • $\begingroup$ that's cool. I know they were trying it out. I'm quite happy with the MathJax rendering here (and even installed it on my personal webpage) $\endgroup$
    – Suresh Venkat
    Aug 29, 2010 at 6:02
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    $\begingroup$ I wish Wikipedia would use MathJax. Their math rendering is...not as good. $\endgroup$
    – David Eppstein
    Aug 29, 2010 at 7:14
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They use jsMath, but some people seem to prefer the newest MathJax, AFAIU. A good starting point may be this thread : add LaTeX support to Markdown/WMD

Hope this helps.

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  • $\begingroup$ Problem is that I don't think we have control over this. The SE overlords have to implement the fix, I believe. $\endgroup$
    – Suresh Venkat
    Aug 16, 2010 at 22:04
  • $\begingroup$ The math.SE (math.stackexchange.com) is already using MathJax, which seems to work well. We just need someone at StackExchange to switch it on here. $\endgroup$
    – ShreevatsaR
    Aug 16, 2010 at 22:15
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I have javascript errors running MathJax.js on IE 8.0.7600.16385.

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  • $\begingroup$ Have you tried mathjax.org/demos ? $\endgroup$
    – Jukka Suomela
    Aug 23, 2010 at 22:30
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    $\begingroup$ Interestingly, the demos work incredibly well. Here I get the following error: Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; MS-RTC LM 8; InfoPath.3; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; Zune 4.0) Timestamp: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:04:48 UTC Message: No such element Line: 35 Char: 3 Code: 0 URI: meta.cstheory.stackexchange.com/content/js/third-party/MathJax/… Is anyone else with IE8 having problems? $\endgroup$
    – Ross Snider
    Aug 24, 2010 at 0:05
  • $\begingroup$ have you tried poking around meta.{math,stats,tex} ? $\endgroup$
    – Suresh Venkat
    Aug 24, 2010 at 4:03
  • $\begingroup$ Nothing. :-(. Due to the lack of resonance from other IE8 users (if there are any here...) I have to conclude that I am the lonely source of these errors. For the record, the LaTeX scripts running on MathOverflow also break. Luckily this is only my work computer and the LaTeX scripts work just fine from home. $\endgroup$
    – Ross Snider
    Aug 24, 2010 at 22:45
  • $\begingroup$ Magically it started working just now! $\endgroup$
    – Ross Snider
    Aug 24, 2010 at 23:19
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Can anyone tell me why I get a [Math Processing Error] in most of the questions? I see Suresh's t^2 in this quote just fine, but I can't see anything in the parent site.

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    $\begingroup$ It seems that some cache poisoning is causing trouble. Try clearing your browser cache explicitly $\endgroup$
    – Suresh Venkat
    Sep 1, 2010 at 22:20
  • $\begingroup$ That worked, thank you. :-) $\endgroup$
    – Aaron Sterling
    Sep 1, 2010 at 23:56

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