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Displaying text inside the math-environment

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By default, Latex will print text within formulas in italics, omitting white spaces. Now if you need to add normal text into a formula or even write a formula using words, you can do this with the text-command inside the math-environment: Example: \text{velocity} = \frac{\text{distance}} {\text{unit of time}} Btw. The “text-command” will also take care of … [Read more…]

Math-formulas with LaTeX on WordPress

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WordPress supports the basic LaTeX math mode. How does it work? Simply type $latex …$, where you replace … with the LaTeX math code. Here is an example formula, $latex f(x_1,x_2)=x_1^2+x_2^2$ which translates to: The original post on the official WordPress blog can be found here.