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Comment author: Nisan 29 January 2012 01:05:55AM 2 points [-]

LaTeX in Less Wrong

Also, the wiki page on using LaTeX in Less Wrong.

It would be ideal if there were a script somewhere that eats an austere LaTeX file and spits out an html file.

Comment author: bbarth 31 January 2012 04:24:10AM 0 points [-]

Wouldn't the right solution be to use MathJax?

Comment author: Nisan 31 January 2012 05:53:08AM 0 points [-]

Hm, yes. I don't think I can do that, though, because I can't put javascript into posts.

Comment author: bbarth 31 January 2012 03:41:14PM 0 points [-]

If LW would update the page template to have the script in the html header, I think we'd be set. Isn't there a site admin for this?

I think this is critical, because rationality in the end needs mathematical support, and MathJax is really the de facto way of putting math in web posts at this point.

Comment author: Nisan 31 January 2012 09:26:49PM 1 point [-]

Someone once requested that Less Wrong implement jsMath, and it seems like it was declined. I just submitted a request for MathJax. I guess we'll see what happens.

Comment author: gwern 29 January 2012 05:05:49AM 0 points [-]
Comment author: Nisan 29 January 2012 07:12:05AM 1 point [-]

That seems to accomplish the same thing as John Maxwell's utility.

I have a file that contains text interspersed with many formulas in LaTeX math mode, delimited by dollar signs or whatever. I'd like something that will replace those $-delimited formulas with html image tags. I'll probably write one myself when I need it.

Comment author: [deleted] 29 January 2012 12:38:14PM 3 points [-]

You would be my personal hero for a period of time not exceeding a week, with at most ten possible thirty-second exceptions during that period.

Comment author: Nisan 13 February 2012 06:57:16AM *  1 point [-]

I tweaked John Maxwell's utility and came up with this thing. It only works for LessWrong posts, not comments.

EDIT: Now it works for comments too.