This comment is a test! I prefer the plain-Markdown editor, but I want to try using LaTeX for one comment, so I temporarily swapped my user settings to the “rich” editor so that I could try out the LaTeX editor here. Then after submitting this comment, I’ll switch my settings _back_ to Markdown, and edit this comment to see what the syntax is for using LaTeX from that editor (wrap it in $s, maybe?), which didn’t seem to be explained in the post above? I would be pretty disappointed if it were to turn out that there’s no way to do LaTeX from the Markdown editor, but I would also be somewhat surprised.
P(→X|C)=∏iP(xi|C)
Edit: even after switching my settings back, editing this comment gives me the rich editor? So … I guess individual comments are saved on a per-editor basis, with no translation? I’ll concede that that makes sense from a technical standpoint, but it’s somewhat disappointing.
It looks like mentions only work in the “LessWrong Docs” comment editor? That’s slightly disappointing, but I don’t mind too much given the select-dropdown to switch on a per-comment basis (rather than having to change my global user settings). Thanks @Raemon and team! (It looks like the PR was implemented by Vlad Sitalo, but I can’t find his username.)
And this is me just checking whether I can mention myself at all the normal way: @Raemon [edit: seems like no]
(I’m waiting to make a top-level announcement till we’ve built more spam-protections into the feature, but: Ruby had previously hired Vlad as a tutor, and they had worked on post mentions (using the # symbol), and more recently I hired Vlad specifically to make user-mentions)
Note that on GreaterWrong, you can always edit any comment in Markdown (because there’s just the one editor); and also, if you click the ‘$’ button on the editing toolbar, it’ll insert the markup for a LaTeX formula for you.
The LaTeX syntax for comments is indeed to wrap it in $ .
You might have to refresh for the editor change to take effect. The correct behavior should be that it displays you a small warning at the top, with the option of switching the editor to your preferred editor and doing some data conversions in the process (though those data conversions don’t properly process LaTeX, so that experiment wouldn’t have helped you figure out the markdown LaTeX syntax).
This comment is a test! I prefer the plain-Markdown editor, but I want to try using LaTeX for one comment, so I temporarily swapped my user settings to the “rich” editor so that I could try out the LaTeX editor here. Then after submitting this comment, I’ll switch my settings _back_ to Markdown, and edit this comment to see what the syntax is for using LaTeX from that editor (wrap it in $s, maybe?), which didn’t seem to be explained in the post above? I would be pretty disappointed if it were to turn out that there’s no way to do LaTeX from the Markdown editor, but I would also be somewhat surprised.
P(→X|C)=∏iP(xi|C)
Edit: even after switching my settings back, editing this comment gives me the rich editor? So … I guess individual comments are saved on a per-editor basis, with no translation? I’ll concede that that makes sense from a technical standpoint, but it’s somewhat disappointing.
This comment (by me, @Zack_M_Davis) is to test whether the new user-mentions work with the Markdown editor. Thanks @raemon and team!
It looks like mentions only work in the “LessWrong Docs” comment editor? That’s slightly disappointing, but I don’t mind too much given the select-dropdown to switch on a per-comment basis (rather than having to change my global user settings). Thanks @Raemon and team! (It looks like the PR was implemented by Vlad Sitalo, but I can’t find his username.)
This is test to see if I can mention Zack or myself in markdown by copying the link-formatting from the LessWrong Docs mentions.
It works!
And this is me just checking whether I can mention myself at all the normal way: @Raemon [edit: seems like no]
(I’m waiting to make a top-level announcement till we’ve built more spam-protections into the feature, but: Ruby had previously hired Vlad as a tutor, and they had worked on post mentions (using the # symbol), and more recently I hired Vlad specifically to make user-mentions)
LaTeX test
PA(xi)=⎧⎪ ⎪ ⎪⎨⎪ ⎪ ⎪⎩1/4xi=17/16xi=21/4xi=31/16xi=4
Added: subscript test, <em>x<sub>1</sub></em>.
Edit, 25 July 2020, more testing:
P(category=c|eggness=7)=P(eggness=7|category=c)P(category=c)∑d∈{blegg,rube,??}P(eggness=7|category=d)P(category=d)
Edit, 21 November 2021, more testing:
2,100,010,80,02,1010,80,010,100,0
Note that on GreaterWrong, you can always edit any comment in Markdown (because there’s just the one editor); and also, if you click the ‘$’ button on the editing toolbar, it’ll insert the markup for a LaTeX formula for you.
The LaTeX syntax for comments is indeed to wrap it in
$.You might have to refresh for the editor change to take effect. The correct behavior should be that it displays you a small warning at the top, with the option of switching the editor to your preferred editor and doing some data conversions in the process (though those data conversions don’t properly process LaTeX, so that experiment wouldn’t have helped you figure out the markdown LaTeX syntax).