On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Stephen <stephen.be...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who wrote the script.  I've been using it for my
> website.

> I actually modified the posted version to suit my own tastes, so I
> wanted to share these suggestions, and if you like some of them, they
> could be incorporated into the main code (my modifications are very
> hacky, because I don't really know javascript at all).

> My modifications are here:
> http://www.acm.caltech.edu/~srbecker/textheworld7.user.js
> http://www.acm.caltech.edu/~srbecker/textheworld7.user.block.js

> The main suggestions:

> (1) for inline expressions, the latex image was always vertically
> centered rather funny.  I was able to easily fix this by adding this
> line:
> imgElement.style.verticalAlign = "middle";
> to
> function createTeXifiedImageElement(expr)

> (2) my webpages are generally static, so I don't need any fancy
> refreshes.  But I also don't want to wait 3 seconds for the images to
> render - I want that immediately!  So it would be nice to give this as
> a second option.  My current hack around this was to replace
> setInterval(TeXTheWorld, 3000);
> with
> setTimeout(TeXTheWorld, 0);

> (3) the second file, the "block" file, is like the first, but it looks
> for [[; and ;]] instead of [; and ];, and it displays the equations as
> "block" style as opposed to "inline" style, i.e.
>    imgElement.style.display = "block";
> The intention is that it functions like \begin{equation}...
> \end{equation} in latex.
> I made this in a second duplicate script (and renamed the functions),
> but of course this is wasteful and I only did it because it was quick
> and I don't know javascript well.

> An example of how I used everything is here:
> http://www.acm.caltech.edu/~srbecker/inverse.shtml

> Some of these you may not agree with but just wanted to put them out
> as suggestions.  Thanks for the great code.

> -Stephen

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