Comments on: Totally Stoked

Totally Stoked

Wolfdog — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:49:48 -0800

Texify is a pretty convenient web-based way to typeset LaTeX equations (and get a linkable image).

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:01:19 -0800

Ah, Latex. Everything that's good and everything that's bad about Open Source, rolled into one.

By: poppo

poppo — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:02:35 -0800

This will be sweet for when I need to typset LaTeX equations

By: freebird

freebird — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:21:40 -0800

Rad! I mispent too many hours of my innocent youth on Latex2HTML to not appreciate this. I'm a fan of the MathML approach - as contrasted with the image generation used here - for philosophical reasons these days. That said, I don't think the former is quite ready for "production" use, while this looks pretty solid. LaTeX and in general, semantic markup and decent rendering for grownups, are how things ought to work. I guess I sorta agree with T.O.C.Tim, but I feel the recipe is like 90% goodness and 5% badness (there's 5% lost in overhead making a specialty layout for the ingredients list).

By: edd

edd — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:24:22 -0800

Nice, but the antialiasing needs some work.

By: virga

virga — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:27:57 -0800

I was thinking the same thing about the anti-aliasing. There is also this online typesetter to PNG, but it currently has the times-new-roman package enabled so all the output is uglified.

By: null terminated

null terminated — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:31:39 -0800

Too bad we can't embed images

By: quanta and qualia

quanta and qualia — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:16:01 -0800

Decent, but notice the difference between the following: http://www.texify.com/$H\Psi=\imath\hbar\frac{\partial\Psi}{\partial{t}}$ and http://www.texify.com/$H\Psi=\imath\hbar\frac{\partial\Psi}{\partial t}$ The latter (auto 'non-clickable') one is what TEXIFY produces, presently. It's non-clickable as far as the automatic HTML mark-up in the emails I send go. A simple way to avoid it would be to use the former equation-URL or http://www.texify.com/$H\Psi=\imath\hbar\partial_{t}\Psi$ However, this is great if you have ever had to communicate equations through email. :-) Double-plus.

By: DU

DU — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:30:25 -0800

Awesome. Also, good title.

By: costas

costas — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 11:48:29 -0800

And if you, like me, don't think in TeX, this free Equation Editor that interoperates with Microsoft's (and works like it too), can spit out TeX.

By: Rudy_Wurlitzer

Rudy_Wurlitzer — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:41:45 -0800

Cool stuff, finally I will be able to include equations into my email messages!