Monday, June 1, 2009

In search of the perfect TeX

So, last time I posted an image.  I uploaded this image after saving it from the service also mentioned in the post.  The reason I uploaded it was due to the fact that there was a limited amount of times the image could be viewed before it was flagged.  The offending, flagged image would be replaced with a nasty, "Get your own version, stop hogging my computation and throughput," message or something to that effect.  Ok, but, I can't install a cgi-script on Google to do the image generation myself, and saving and uploading these images is a pain.

It would be nice to just insert the image directly... so I'm experimenting with a couple of sites and services to see what is available.  I found this site: http://www.mathtran.org.  Let's see how this works.

\sin(\alpha + \beta) = \sin \alpha \cos \beta + \sin \beta \cos \alpha

From what I can tell, MathTran is a site where you can create an account to store and view formulas written in a varient of LaTeX (mostly LaTeX, but they also do some minor formatting changes and don't allow \begin{environment} and \end{...} tags).  It looks to be funded through an OpenUniverseity grant in the UK.  The script does not appear to be account-dependent, so you can create the tex in the image source yourself, but it will probably be better for me if I can organize the forumlas by post.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

My First Post... Ever

So this is a test.  First thing to test?  Line breaks.

Second thing to test?  Images?  Where do I get some images to test?  LaTeX from here.