I am complementing this blog with a Google+ feed (which evolved from a now inactive Google Buzz feed). This feed contains a number of short posts, mostly of a mathematical nature, that are too brief or trivial to merit a post on this blog. (On the other hand, the blog posts here should also be automatically reposted in the Google+ feed.)
The comment policy for my blog is also applicable to the buzz feed; I request that comments be constructive, polite, and at least tangentially related to the topic at hand. Comments that involve personal attacks, which do not advance the conversation, are self-promoting or are otherwise not relevant to the main topic will be subject to deletion.
The Google+ format does not directly support LaTeX. However, one can mimic LaTeX support by installing some version of the “TeX the world” plugin. This plugin can be installed on the following browsers:
- (Firefox) Install Greasemonkey if this is not already installed, and then download this userscript.
- (Chrome in Windows or MacOS) Install Greasemetal if this is not already installed, and then download this userscript.
- (Safari) Install Greasekit, and then download this userscript.
- (Chrome in other OSes) Follow the instructions at this link.
- (Opera) Try this link or this link.
- (Internet Explorer) This plugin is not supported by IE.
Once one does so, any text such as [; e^{\pi i} + 1 = 0 ;] that is between brackets and semicolons as indicated will be converted to LaTeX in your browser (though note that it will still be rendered as plain text in browsers in which TeX the world is not installed). Note that this code might not work perfectly in Gmail environments.
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27 August, 2010 at 11:23 am
Anonymous
Or you can use the usual LaTeX delimiters ($…$, $$…$$, \(…\), \[...\]) and GmailTeX, which is available as a bookmarklet, userscript, and chrome extension.
2 October, 2010 at 6:58 am
Darth Geek
Does this also work to write LaTeX code in Blogger?
If so, how?
24 November, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Hao
Darth Geek, MathJax is probably the way to go. Details here: http://highly-distractable.blogspot.com/2010/07/math-math-everywhere.html
Note that if you don’t have a server you can use to serve up the fonts, you will need to use a public MathJax server.
Terence, thanks! (One minor nitpick, the links to the userscript should be updated as version 7 has some fixes for bugs in version 6). [Corrected, thanks - T.]