Timeline for Commas inside or outside dollars in MathJax?
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| Jan 3, 2017 at 23:48 | comment | added | Kyle Strand |
@MichaelHardy I thought your list starting with \usepackage was a list of such "solecisms" and was beginning to feel really concerned about my understanding of LaTeX, until I made it to the end of your comment!
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| Jan 1, 2017 at 19:35 | comment | added | chirlu |
One of the most common issues I see is grouping commas with a thinspace after them; e.g., for a number slightly greater than one billion: $1,234,567,890$ 1,234,567,890. This is because TeX (and MathJax) by default assumes commas to be list commas, for which the space is desired. The proper way is to write $1{,}234{,}567{,}890$ 1{,}234{,}567{,}890.
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| Jan 1, 2017 at 19:23 | history | edited | Michael Hardy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 25, 2016 at 22:06 | comment | added | Servaes | To be fair, on my first day in university I was provided with a LaTeX template for assignments, in which I could simpy write text and math and it would compile nicely. For two and a half years this was LaTeX for me. Until I had to write a thesis and an article. And many have even dared to write a thesis in this template... For many LaTeX doesn't do (much) more than what MathJax does. | |
| Dec 24, 2016 at 10:18 | comment | added | Davide Cervone |
You can use \label and \ref in MathJax, and there is \verb in MathJax (which is similar to \verbatim). But you are right, MathJax is not LaTeX, and isn't intended to be. It does not do all the page formatting tasks of LaTeX, only the math formatting ones, by design.
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| Dec 22, 2016 at 19:03 | comment | added | Ben Grossmann | I guess I didn't think of anything outside the math formatting. Good point. | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 18:11 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | @Omnomnomnom : Probably many who use LaTeX hardly know it. It is unusual to see a LaTeX document typed by a mathematician that doesn't have lots of the sorts of solecisms that result simply from not knowing much. Do you ever include the \usepackage command before \begin{document}? Do you have use the \setcounter command? Or \input? Or \label and \ref? Or \cite? Or \enumerate? Or \itemize? Or \pagestyle or \thispagestyle? Or \section? Or \verbatim? (I've used \verbatim for ANOVA tables.) You can't do any of those things in MathJax, as far as I know, and that's all really basic stuff in LaTeX. | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 14:39 | comment | added | Ben Grossmann | As someone who uses both, I find little essential difference between LaTeX and MathJax. Then again, perhaps I don't really know LaTeX. | |
| Dec 22, 2016 at 3:38 | history | answered | Michael Hardy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |