[LON-CAPA-admin] Best practice for latex math entry?

[Moore, Nathan T]

Thanks for this clarification Stuart!

As you suggested I changed the default to MathJax (was tth).  I think it looks much nicer - so, student problem solved and prettier to look at to boot!

Again, thanks,

Nathan

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Nathan Moore, PhD
Physics, Winona State University

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From: LON-CAPA-admin <lon-capa-admin-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org> On Behalf Of Raeburn, Stuart
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Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-admin] Best practice for latex math entry?

Nathan,

If using the m tag in LON-CAPA, you should wrap math expressions either with <m> $ $ </m>, or <m> \(   \) </m> (both are valid ways of entering math mode in recent versions of LaTeX).

If you want to display the expression as a centered equation you would wrap the expression with <m> \[ \] </m>.

Although the MathJax renderer will display a TeX expression without the math mode characters you may encounter errors with the tth (TeX to HTML) renderer.


Course Coordinators can enforce use of a specific math rendering engine for the course via:
Settings > Course Settings > Display  ("Display of resources" checked) > "Force use of a specific math rendering engine"



The next release will also allow you to set  the "default method to display mathematics" for your domain, and the default used will become MathJax, if a domain default is not set. (Currently the default renderer is tth).