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Paul
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Posted 09/09/08 - 12:13 AM:	#11
Generation of the images simply isn't worth the development time for me when I've never had a paying customer ask for it.

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Posted 10/19/08 - 09:39 AM: Subject: Testing 1 2 3 testing	#12
jorndoe wrote: Unfortunately, rendering a good deal of symbols and expressions is still fairly unreliable amongst browsers/fonts/operatingsystems. :-/ I find these seems generally usable/supported: http://www.bigbaer.com/sidebars/entities/ http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/HTML/guide/entities.html These pages offer some good details and standards (some only proposed at this point): http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html Some comments here as well: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/math/#chars Hopefully, using www as a general medium for representing all kinds of expressions, will be more standardized (and supported) within the next few years. In waiting for this to crystalize, such metasites as wikipedia, has now implemented full LaTeX integration (by generating, and inserting, small images on-the-fly). Let me just try what characters gets rendered in what way: Â« left-pointing double angle quotation mark = left pointing guillemet, U+00AB ISOnum Â¬ not sign, U+00AC ISOnum Â¯ macron = spacing macron = overline = APL overbar, U+00AF ISOdia Â° degree sign, U+00B0 ISOnum Â± plus-minus sign = plus-or-minus sign, U+00B1 ISOnum Â² superscript two = superscript digit two = squared, U+00B2 ISOnum Â³ superscript three = superscript digit three = cubed, U+00B3 ISOnum Âµ micro sign, U+00B5 ISOnum Â· middle dot = Georgian comma = Greek middle dot, U+00B7 ISOnum Â¸ cedilla = spacing cedilla, U+00B8 ISOdia Â¹ superscript one = superscript digit one, U+00B9 ISOnum Âº masculine ordinal indicator, U+00BA ISOnum Â» right-pointing double angle quotation mark = right pointing guillemet, U+00BB ISOnum Â¼ vulgar fraction one quarter = fraction one quarter, U+00BC ISOnum Â½ vulgar fraction one half = fraction one half, U+00BD ISOnum Â¾ vulgar fraction three quarters = fraction three quarters, U+00BE ISOnum Ã— multiplication sign, U+00D7 ISOnum Ã˜ latin capital letter O with stroke = latin capital letter O slash, U+00D8 ISOlat1 Ã· division sign, U+00F7 ISOnum Ã¾ latin small letter thorn, U+00FE ISOlat1 â€“ en dash, U+2013 ISOpub â€” em dash, U+2014 ISOpub â€˜ left single quotation mark, U+2018 ISOnum â€™ right single quotation mark, U+2019 ISOnum â€š single low-9 quotation mark, U+201A â€œ left double quotation mark, U+201C ISOnum â€ right double quotation mark, U+201D ISOnum â€ž double low-9 quotation mark, U+201E â€ dagger, U+2020 ISOpub â€¡ double dagger, U+2021 ISOpub â€° per mille sign, U+2030 ISOtech â€¹ single left-pointing angle quotation mark, U+2039 ISO proposed â€º single right-pointing angle quotation mark, U+203A ISO proposed Æ’ latin small f with hook = function = florin, U+0192 ISOtech Î“ greek capital letter gamma, U+0393 ISOgrk3 Î” greek capital letter delta, U+0394 ISOgrk3 Î˜ greek capital letter theta, U+0398 ISOgrk3 Î› greek capital letter lambda, U+039B ISOgrk3 Îž greek capital letter xi, U+039E ISOgrk3 Î greek capital letter pi, U+03A0 ISOgrk3 Î£ greek capital letter sigma, U+03A3 ISOgrk3 Î¦ greek capital letter phi, U+03A6 ISOgrk3 Î¨ greek capital letter psi, U+03A8 ISOgrk3 Î© greek capital letter omega, U+03A9 ISOgrk3 Î± greek small letter alpha, U+03B1 ISOgrk3 Î² greek small letter beta, U+03B2 ISOgrk3 Î³ greek small letter gamma, U+03B3 ISOgrk3 Î´ greek small letter delta, U+03B4 ISOgrk3 Îµ greek small letter epsilon, U+03B5 ISOgrk3 Î¶ greek small letter zeta, U+03B6 ISOgrk3 Î· greek small letter eta, U+03B7 ISOgrk3 Î¸ greek small letter theta, U+03B8 ISOgrk3 Îº greek small letter kappa, U+03BA ISOgrk3 Î» greek small letter lambda, U+03BB ISOgrk3 Î¼ greek small letter mu, U+03BC ISOgrk3 Î¾ greek small letter xi, U+03BE ISOgrk3 Ï€ greek small letter pi, U+03C0 ISOgrk3 Ï greek small letter rho, U+03C1 ISOgrk3 Ï‚ greek small letter final sigma, U+03C2 ISOgrk3 Ïƒ greek small letter sigma, U+03C3 ISOgrk3 Ï„ greek small letter tau, U+03C4 ISOgrk3 Ï† greek small letter phi, U+03C6 ISOgrk3 Ïˆ greek small letter psi, U+03C8 ISOgrk3 Ï‰ greek small letter omega, U+03C9 ISOgrk3 Ï‘ greek small letter theta symbol, U+03D1 Ï’ greek upsilon with hook symbol, U+03D2 Ï– greek pi symbol, U+03D6 ISOgrk3 â€¢ bullet = black small circle, U+2022 ISOpub â€¦ horizontal ellipsis = three dot leader, U+2026 ISOpub â„˜ script capital P = power set = Weierstrass p, U+2118 ISOamso â„‘ blackletter capital I = imaginary part, U+2111 ISOamso â„œ blackletter capital R = real part symbol, U+211C ISOamso â„µ alef symbol = first transfinite cardinal, U+2135 â† leftwards arrow, U+2190 ISOnum â†‘ upwards arrow, U+2191 ISOnum â†’ rightwards arrow, U+2192 ISOnum â†“ downwards arrow, U+2193 ISOnum â†” left right arrow, U+2194 ISOamsa â†µ downwards arrow with corner leftwards = carriage return, U+21B5 â‡ leftwards double arrow, U+21D0 ISOtech â‡‘ upwards double arrow, U+21D1 ISOamsa â‡’ rightwards double arrow, U+21D2 ISOtech â‡“ downwards double arrow, U+21D3 ISOamsa â‡” left right double arrow, U+21D4 ISOamsa âˆ€ for all, U+2200 ISOtech âˆ‚ partial differential, U+2202 ISOtech âˆƒ there exists, U+2203 ISOtech âˆ… empty set = null set = diameter, U+2205 ISOamso âˆ‡ nabla = backward difference, U+2207 ISOtech âˆˆ element of, U+2208 ISOtech âˆ‰ not an element of, U+2209 ISOtech âˆ‹ contains as member, U+220B ISOtech âˆ n-ary product = product sign, U+220F ISOamsb âˆ‘ n-ary sumation, U+2211 ISOamsb âˆš square root = radical sign, U+221A ISOtech âˆ proportional to, U+221D ISOtech âˆž infinity, U+221E ISOtech âˆ angle, U+2220 ISOamso âˆ§ logical and = wedge, U+2227 ISOtech âˆ¨ logical or = vee, U+2228 ISOtech âˆ© intersection = cap, U+2229 ISOtech âˆª union = cup, U+222A ISOtech âˆ« integral, U+222B ISOtech âˆ´ therefore, U+2234 ISOtech âˆ¼ tilde operator = varies with = similar to, U+223C ISOtech â‰… approximately equal to, U+2245 ISOtech â‰ˆ almost equal to = asymptotic to, U+2248 ISOamsr â‰ not equal to, U+2260 ISOtech â‰¡ identical to, U+2261 ISOtech â‰¤ less-than or equal to, U+2264 ISOtech â‰¥ greater-than or equal to, U+2265 ISOtech âŠ‚ subset of, U+2282 ISOtech âŠƒ superset of, U+2283 ISOtech âŠ„ not a subset of, U+2284 ISOamsn âŠ† subset of or equal to, U+2286 ISOtech âŠ‡ superset of or equal to, U+2287 ISOtech âŠ• circled plus = direct sum, U+2295 ISOamsb âŠ— circled times = vector product, U+2297 ISOamsb âŠ¥ up tack = orthogonal to = perpendicular, U+22A5 ISOtech â‹… dot operator, U+22C5 ISOamsb âŒˆ left ceiling = apl upstile, U+2308 ISOamsc âŒ‰ right ceiling, U+2309 ISOamsc âŒŠ left floor = apl downstile, U+230A ISOamsc âŒ‹ right floor, U+230B ISOamsc âŒ© left-pointing angle bracket = bra, U+2329 ISOtech âŒª right-pointing angle bracket = ket, U+232A ISOtech â—Š lozenge, U+25CA ISOpub â™ black spade suit, U+2660 ISOpub â™£ black club suit = shamrock, U+2663 ISOpub â™¥ black heart suit = valentine, U+2665 ISOpub â™¦ black diamond suit, U+2666 ISOpub â„• natural numbers = {1, 2, 3, â€¦}, blackboard U+2115 â„¤ integers = {â€¦, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, â€¦}, blackboard U+2124 â„š rational numbers = integer fractions, blackboard U+211A â„ real numbers = the continuum, blackboard U+211D â„‚ complex numbers, blackboard U+2102 â…ˆ sometimes the imaginary unit (i), blackboard U+2148 By the way, the DejaVu fonts seems to have a quite comprehensive characterset, and it's free too. Edited by jorndoe on 11/16/08 - 09:52 AM
People are to themselves what they think; people are to others what they do. ∞ ∑ 1/i² = π²/6 i=1

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Posted 02/22/09 - 06:36 PM:

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jorndoe wrote:
Let me just try [..]

Attaching an html file instead, containing a variety of characters.

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People are to themselves what they think; people are to others what they do.
∞
∑ 1/i² = π²/6
i=1

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Posted 02/22/09 - 06:49 PM:	#14
So since the LaTeX is apparently not actually working, shouldn't this thread be taken down, or at least edited so you don't keep getting people like me asking how to work it?

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