Math Equations (Equation Editor) in Gmail

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MattHeaton

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Jun 12, 2009, 3:54:13 PM6/12/09
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In my work, I frequently have to email mathematical equations to
various people. I suggest developing an equation editor into gmail.
Preferably, the equation editor would understand latex (pronounced
latek) commands.

mhenriday

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Jun 13, 2009, 7:45:39 AM6/13/09
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Excellent idea, which I second !...

Henri

EricG

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Jul 1, 2009, 5:45:26 PM7/1/09
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You can actually do this right now without much effort.

If you activate the "insert image" Labs feature, select "Web Address
(URL)" and fill in the <> with your latex code:
http://www.texify.com/img/<>.gif

BONUS: If you leave the .gif at the end while you type you actually
get a real-time preview.

For example, for the latex code $e^{j\pi}=-1$ enter
http://www.texify.com/img/e^{j\pi}=-1.gif

Eric

Jason Murphy

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Jul 18, 2009, 11:05:09 PM7/18/09
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That's a great help! Thanks a lot EricG

Does anyone know a similar thing that one can do when G-chatting?

because, dorky as it might be, it actually comes up quite a bit where
being able to input latex code and have math symbols come out would be
very very useful within a gchat.


On Jul 1, 4:45 pm, EricG wrote:
> You can actually do this right now without much effort.
>
> If you activate the "insert image" Labs feature, select "Web Address
> (URL)" and fill in the <> with yourlatexcode:http://www.texify.com/img/<>.gif
>
> BONUS: If you leave the .gif at the end while you type you actually
> get a real-time preview.
>
> For example, for thelatexcode $e^{j\pi}=-1$ enterhttp://www.texify.com/img/e^{j\pi}=-1.gif

Jason Murphy

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Jul 27, 2009, 6:18:19 PM7/27/09
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There is something called mathim.com which allows for latex commands
to be put directly into a chat client. Would Google be able to
incorporate this into gchat somehow?

On Jul 18, 10:05 pm, Jason Murphy wrote:
> That's a great help! Thanks a lot EricG
>
> Does anyone know a similar thing that one can do when G-chatting?
>
> because, dorky as it might be, it actually comes up quite a bit where
> being able to inputlatexcode and have math symbols come out would be

MiniDfx

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Aug 15, 2009, 12:23:39 PM8/15/09
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An editor like Microsoft Office 2008 will be a good idea ? No ?

Benj

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Aug 16, 2009, 9:21:43 PM8/16/09
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I would also like a latex e-mail

curtisd

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Feb 22, 2013, 6:29:13 PM2/22/13
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I'm definitely behind adding LaTeX support directly within Gmail.

Good suggestions for alternatives, too; thanks, all.

Jean Paul Baharet

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Oct 21, 2014, 6:53:05 PM10/21/14
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What did everyone end up doing?

Goofy 235

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Oct 21, 2014, 8:03:54 PM10/21/14
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FIVE + years later...
Whatever solution they managed to come up with I imagine...
WITHOUT any help from Google...
Google-ites ignore easy solutions...much more the complicated ones :-(
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Oliver

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Oct 28, 2014, 11:13:20 PM10/28/14
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It's not ideal, but I've found you can simply copy things from Equation Editor and send it in emails. E.g  Inline image 1.

Gabriel Nicolás Camargo Toledo

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Jan 21, 2015, 1:42:07 PM1/21/15
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This chrome extension (or firefox or safari) works great:

http://alexeev.org/gmailtex.html
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