Writing math symbols

Fragment of a discussion from Science talk:MER

I think if we use both the HTML rendering and the <math> tags, we should format the font of the HTML rendering to a sans-serif font. I know LaTeX uses the Computer Modern font, which would be of course ideal. But to make that work well we would have to implement custom markup/tags.

Alfred Xing (talk)02:22, 6 October 2012

Hi Alfred,

It is a good point, but I'm not sure we can get access to that kind of modifications. The wiki is used by the entire UBC community. If you look at the math pages on wikipedia, they end up doing something similar to what we try here. In the end it is not perfect, but works well enough.

One annoying issue are double derivatives... the ' ' has the wiki believe it should be italics. And besides ugly things such as using a nowiki tag, there isn't much we can do except going in math mode.

David Kohler (talk)18:14, 6 October 2012

Maybe we can try using double quotation marks for the inline text (although you have to add a space between the f and the " )? The two apostrophes work with the <math> tags.

Examples:

Inline f "(x).

Alfred Xing (talk)18:59, 6 October 2012