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P.S. I used [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula#TeX_vs_HTML this] to help me. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 07:47, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
:To each his own, of course, but TeX rendering has one crucial advantage: it's reliable and unambiguous, and can handle arbitrarily complex equations. Wiki has 3 ways of displaying math: TeX png image, MathML, or for very simple stuff, normal text with sub-/superscripts. I set minimum font size in firefox, so sometimes plain subscripts look as big as normal text. MathML depends on user having math font installed. Currently only TeX can be relied upon to deliver equations accurately. If you want to reduce TeX math display size, there are hacks (be careful tho): <math>\scriptstyle\sqrt 2</math> --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 20:49, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
::I would have stayed with TeX if I could get it to not break up the line so much. I guess it works best on a line by itself. I know that TeX has great support and I will be using it more as there are problems with the HTML I used above that make it awkward for more complex equations.
::I guess I am new to TeX and could do with a GUI-based tool. (I wonder, Is TeX the language used by Open Office)? --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 05:29, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
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