LaTeX Support in Code Project

Question

4.00/5 (1 vote)

See more:

Hi,

I have been reading a lot of CP articles lately, and found it odd that there is no LaTeX support provided in the Article Section.

There are many articles Related to Image Processing includes equations regarding the Algorithms that needs to be implemented in them. Currently, those are being uploaded as images.

Wont it be better if the LaTeX support is provided for this ? And I personally feel its good for two reasons.

* Avoids uploading of Images in between the articles
* Easy and Efficient way of writing the Equations.

Is there any reason in particular because of which the LaTeX support is not provided in CP ?

BR//
Harsha

Posted 18-May-11 19:12pm

ZeeroC00l

Add a Solution

1 solution

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2011-05-18T19:30:00

Solution 1

Did you pay attention that the CodeProject content is viewed using Web browser, so it is delivered as HTML? :-) And HTML power in text and formula layout is pathetically miserable compared to LaTeX, which will defeat the purpose of all of the LaTeX power, in my opinion.

An attempt to render fully-fledged LaTeX document via HTML will inevitably cause loss of information. What would you do about it? How about on-line editing of HTML which is presently available? I hardly can imagine resolution of these problem. I'm really sorry the situation with Web standards and their support is in such a sorrowful state right now and in such a strong contradiction with the present-day demands, but I doubt CodeProject is capable of resolving these global issues.

Final note: it's interesting to discuss the prospective CodeProject feature here, but all the suggestions are supposed to go to CodeProject's main menu => "Help!" => "Bugs and Suggestions".

—SA

Posted 18-May-11 19:30pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 18-May-11 19:32pm

v2

Comments

ZeeroC00l 19-May-11 1:34am

I agree with your Answer, but there are many other sites that provide LaTeX support for Equations. This was just a question out of curiosity. Well I will put this in Suggestions as you said.

BR//
Harsha

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 19-May-11 1:46am

"LaTeX support for Equations"... How? Give me the reference. I bet it will be some PNG images generated our of LaTeX or something like that...
--SA

ZeeroC00l 19-May-11 2:28am

Yes, I agree with you once again on this.. They are rendered into PNG using LaTeX. But isn't this better than Uploading the images manually ?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-May-11 13:41pm

Yes, better. I don't think this is actual for CodeProject. What formulas?
You can post a suggestion of course...
--SA

ZeeroC00l 20-May-11 13:43pm

I was talking about the Equation that Authors make use of in the Articles..
Well i did put it up in suggestions. Lets wait and see if it will be implemented :)

--Harsha

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-May-11 16:50pm

That's what I'm talking too. There are too few of such equations; and work-around using HTML does work. I agree HTML is ugly, but this is not my first concern.

Thank you for this discussion.
--SA

rtybase 24-Sep-12 9:39am

Here is a possible way to address this:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13865/how-to-use-latex-on-blogspot

Basically, it is about adding a new JS reference to mathjax.org.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Sep-12 18:12pm

Don't you think you could post it as another answer?
--SA

rtybase 25-Sep-12 4:50am

Well, it's not really an answer. It's a possible answer, if we insist CodeProject to update their platform by referencing mathjax.org, because at the moment we can't do this and we won't be able to do this on our own (for various security reasons, allowing the users to add active JS code to the articles isn't a good idea).

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Sep-12 14:03pm

OK, whatever. My opinion is simple: LaTeX would be a real overkill for the purpose. What would be more useful is the ability to use vector graphics in posts: XAML or SVG, but, unfortunately, this is a browser thing: not all of them support these standards. IE, for example, is quite bad with them.
--SA

rtybase 26-Sep-12 4:55am

Overkill? It's a JS library (also works on my phone), which renders the formulas on the client side, here is an example: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/72942/non-increasing-sequence-of-positive-real-numbers-with-prime-index

Plus, for the editors, there are web tools which help with editing formulas, like http://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php