TEX THE WORLD
BEWARE! TeX THE WORLD causes
severe performance problems on Firefox!
If you want to help fix this, you're welcome to do but I am not maintaing this anymore.
Send me an
email at avital@thewe.net or just go do it :)
HOW DO I USE IT?
Automatic Action
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TEX THE WORLD converts TeX formulas anywhere, on any website,
into rendered images. All you have to do is put them between
[; and ;] (for example: [;e^{\pi i} + 1 = 0;])
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When using interactive websites, like chats, TEX THE WORLD runs every 3 seconds, so chats will be converted
as well (have you ever looked for a TeX or LaTeX chat?)
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In rich environments like HTML-enabled webmail (gmail, hotmail, etc.), it will convert the TeX formula into an actual image that's embedded in the e-mail you're sending!
Fixing a mistake
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Let's say you typed a formula, it got rendered, and then you noticed a mistake. No problem. Just double-click the rendered formula and it will return to the original TeX formula!
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Want to fix it and re-render? Just double-click on it again!
How will people know they should install this add-on?
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In text-environments like chats and (some) forums (sci.math included), people that will not be running this add-on will see text instead of nice images.
This is not horrible, but why not let them enjoy this add-on as well? Just press ctrl-shift-; and a nice pre-defined text will appear telling people where to install
the add-on from
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Don't forget that in webmails the mail you will be sending will contain an actual image so the other side doesn't need the add-on to see it, but the other side
will not know how you created it. So why not press ctrl-shift-; at the end of the e-mail to let the other side know he can install this script?
ABOUT
TEX THE WORLD was written by
Avital Oliver with the help of many close friends. TEX THE WORLD is part of a larger project -
theWE. For discussions, go
here.
If you
want to create a stand-alone page with formulas using TeX THE WORLD and
not force people to install the add-on, just add the following line
somewhere on the page:
<script language="JavaScript"
src="http://thewe.net/tex/textheworld7.user.js"></script>
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Works on version of Firefox up to 3.6
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Now uses the codecogs.com LaTeX renderer which looks much nicer
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Bugfixes:
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Thanks to Blair Sutton: When I close a file in Google Docs and re-open it all the image event listeners are lost. This breaks
the useful feature that allows re-editing the Tex.
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Thanks to Blair Sutton: Fixed a minor bug where characters such as ampersand (&) and left/
right angle brackets (< or >) would always be translated into HTML escape
codes.
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Thanks to Marko Bencun: There are places you cannot put a Latex formula because the webpage's stylesheet make the resulting
image hidden (as seen here: http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/9mdhd/what_do_you_guys_think_about_getting_latex/c0ddkp2).
CREDITS
TeX THE WORLD would not have been possible without the following
projects: