Seeing people attach word docs to their posts in order to get their equations all pretty is a bit sad. What are the chances that this forum could use MathJax? or something similar? http://www.mathjax.org/
I've passed this onto our IT guys. We've wanted to do something for a while - unfortunately our IT team is stretched and it'll require a couple of days of their time to implement - so we've not been able to do anything yet.
Well, lots of sympathy for the stretched IT guys. Time to sit tight and wait for the budget entrails to align I guess
One of the IT team says he's sorted this and it seems to be working except for MathML... Care to try this out?
A simple example: \[ \left [ - \frac{\hbar^2}{2 m} \frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2} + V \right ] \Psi = i \hbar \frac{\partial}{\partial t} \Psi \]
Hurrah! That is fantastic! Post exams are you up for writing a thread explaining to students how to use it? And I'll make sure it gets the attention it deserves.
Will do. I'm looking into how to render the term-certain symbol - I have some code that works well in LateX but it requires some tweaking for a pure TeX environment.
Any good Mathjax ways of getting a term certain symbol i.e. a thing like ¬ to sit over a number? I've tried overline with a pipe symbol | e.g. to show a ten year annuity certain payable in arrears: \[ a_{\overline{10|}} \]
There is a way - a bit clunky at the moment (I've been trying to work out a way of embedding a simple definition in the page but no luck yet!). You need to first import a bit of the MathML package available by saying \require{enclose} and then you can typeset term-certain symbols with A_\enclose{actuarial}{n} Which produces \[ \require{enclose} A_\enclose{actuarial}{n} \]
