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:::We had a page on [[Help:GeSHi|GeSHi]] already. The math tag was never installed. When I made the Formatting page before I told Short Circuit about it, but it wasn't very important back then. We don't deal much with math symbols more complicated than <nowiki><sup> and <sub></nowiki> anyway. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 14:18, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

:::: Well, that page isn't particularly easy to find: [[Special:Whatlinkshere/Help:GeSHi]] and the two links there list no pages linking to it except the above link you gave. And if you don't know that GeSHi is installed in the first place (and what it is), the name doesn't help, either. IMHO, it's really better to naming pages after their function. For the math tags, some people (not me) '''did''' propose problems that need a substantial amount of math, and we have several problems that at least come near a moderate amount of maths (like eigenvalues for matrices). So occasionally, the math tags would be useful. Actually, when involved with the first problem mentioned, I spend quite some time rewriting stuff into math tags, only to discover they don't work. I don't know how difficult it is to support them, but at least I would appreciate a clear decision, and easy to find information that tells you if they are supported, or not :-) --[[User:Dirkt|Dirkt]] 10:06, 10 July 2008 (UTC)