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EquationEditor

The equation editor is a simpel dialog that allows you to insert equations into a page using latex.

In order to be able to use this plugin you must have latex installed and the following two commands must be available on your system: "latex" and "dvipng". If you have different commands with similar functionality you can change them in the config file. You can control the look of the equations using the special template "latex/_Equation.tex". The only variable that can be used in this template is "equation", which will be replaced with the content from the dialog.

Syntax

TODO: This section needs to be improved - suggestions welcome.

Some quick examples of the latex math syntax. For a complete reference see the links below:

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c = \sqrt{ a^2 + b^2 }

\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \frac{1}{x} \, dx

f(x) = \sum_{n = 0}^{\infty} \alpha_n x^n

x_{1,2}=\frac{-b\pm\sqrt{\color{Red}b^2-4ac}}{2a}

\hat a  \bar b  \vec c  x'  \dot{x}  \ddot{x}

References

  • Micheal Downes, Short Math Guide for LaTeX, American Mathematical Society, 2002 [1]
  • Tobias Oetiker e.a, The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX2e, 2007 [2]

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