‘Blogging’ Category Archive

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Excerpt: Following on from my original article on publishing equations on the web, there is a new method which may be useful to those information retreival specialists or publishers of blogs which use mathematics. Enter PHPMathpublisher a useful conversion tool that creates a png image of the equation from a simple code which has the advantage that it will display identically in most browsers. To use the script you need to have the GD library for PHP. Examples are included below: Equation Syntax All equations start with <m> and end with the tag</m> Separators for 3d-mathematics are held within {}. Subscripts: _ Superscripts ^ An extensive list is…

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Excerpt: God, I hate it when I cannot think of anything to write about. Usually the best thing to do is to start writing something at least and see where it takes you. Then I remembered a blog post about how good blog posts are trying to answer people’s questions. How do you know what people want to know about? One way might be WordTracker’s Keyword Questions Tool. Type a single word into the input box and the search will bring up the questions that people are asking ranked in order of popularity.   For example typing search brings a number of simple questions…