On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Alex Brollo &lt;alex.brollo(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: The use of scriptstyle to control font size is an ugly hack that makes many formulas less readable. For example, <math>2^{A_C}\,</math> and <math>2^{A}C\,</math> become much harder to distinguish in scriptstyle. In a custom installation, you can tweak the font size in images by changing the value of the "-D" parameter in line 8 of render.ml and recompiling texvc. The ideal solution for Wikipedia would be to move to a system in which users with relatively modern browsers don't see images at all. There is already a candidate for that system: MathJax. This has extensive browser compatibility [1] and is actively maintained, with some big-name sponsors behind it [2]. The main difficulties enabling it on WIkipedia would be configuration and checking for any inconsistencies with texvc (so the main limitation is developer interest). On a custom install without a huge base of existing text, you could probably just use Extension:MathJax, although I haven't tried it. - Carl 1: http://www.mathjax.org/resources/browser-compatibility/ 2: http://www.mathjax.org/sponsors/

2011/1/19 Maury Markowitz &lt;maury.markowitz(a)gmail.com&gt; Don't care, throw away my suggestions,,,, and ask Carl. "Ubi major minor cessat!" :-) Alex

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Aryeh Gregor &lt;Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Works OK in Safari. WebKit perhaps? I used to think that too. Then I looked at the examples on the wiki page on the issue. Although I find TeX rather opaque, a much worst issue is obscurity through verbosity, which not only makes the formula difficult to understand, but the entire source of the article too. That's why I don't use CITE either.

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Aryeh Gregor &lt;Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Ahhh, I get it. And yes, that does make sense to me.

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Platonides &lt;Platonides(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Delurking to say that while I don't know if it's useful for us at all, Mathjax is getting lots of buzz in other settings (like publishing and the science library world); and also I just today came across this http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html It's not directly applicable but it is a fun usability idea for turning symbols into LaTeX (and by extension I can imagine symbols to markup, letters to unicode, etc.) -- phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at> gmail.com *