It’s not built into the site, but you can include LaTeX in comments and posts as an image; see the Less Wrong LaTeX Editor (built by our own John Maxwell using CodeCogs’s LaTeX engine).
Example:
Is there a way of editing equations created this way other than typing them all over again? Supposing you closed the browser tab with the original equation?
if you copy the url of the image, it contains the LaTeX in a url-encoded form (so spaces are replaced by %20 and ^ is replaced by %5E)
OK, and how do I drop it back into the editor? By manually fixing the %20 and %5E? Or is there something better?
You can edit the URL directly, and it will point to a new image; there’s no need to submit it back into the website.
Yeah, that’s what i use whenever I need to put some equations in a post or comment.
It’s not built into the site, but you can include LaTeX in comments and posts as an image; see the Less Wrong LaTeX Editor (built by our own John Maxwell using CodeCogs’s LaTeX engine).
Example:
Is there a way of editing equations created this way other than typing them all over again? Supposing you closed the browser tab with the original equation?
if you copy the url of the image, it contains the LaTeX in a url-encoded form (so spaces are replaced by %20 and ^ is replaced by %5E)
OK, and how do I drop it back into the editor? By manually fixing the %20 and %5E? Or is there something better?
You can edit the URL directly, and it will point to a new image; there’s no need to submit it back into the website.
Yeah, that’s what i use whenever I need to put some equations in a post or comment.