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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: It would be nice to be able to use mathematics in WordPress to write equations as easily as I can write this sentence, but I can’t. What are the options for someone writing a technical blog? LaTeX Plugin LaTeX is a popular choice in the scientific community. It uses a  code to typeset equations. The final document is a postscript or  pdf document to produce a well typeset beautiful looking documents. For the web, LaTeX equations can be converted to .gif images. WordPress also has a plugin which uses LaTeX to render the code as gif images within your post. You might think,…