Problem solving journal
Recently a friend asked for assistance with an E&M problem. After dusting off that part of my brain and helping him out, it occurred to me that I used to really enjoy working out problems like that. And it used to be easier too! So I resolved to start working some physics math problems from time to time, for fun mental exercise. Since I also have
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To make your math typesetting a bit smoother, you may want to give LyX a try (www.lyx.org). It generates LaTeX but does a competent job of presenting your equations on-screen as you create them.
Does LJ support MathML? That might be a viable alternative (but Boo! on LJ for not supporting LaTeX).
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I have used LyX in the past, but to be honest I prefer a straight text editor. I type fast enough that equation palettes actually slow me down, plus after all these years I have my own tempate files that I have made and like. The real-time rendering is nice, but it's just not a huge draw, either. Of course, on wordpress it's not whole documents anyway. Just specially tagged LaTeX snippets that get converted into a mimetex image render.
Speaking of which, implementing a new lj-tag that provides some syntactic sugar to wrap mimetex calls ought to be completely trivial. So yah, Boo! indeed for LJ not doing this despite being asked (a few times, apparently).
For MathML, there's not really a question of whether LJ supports it. MathML is rendered on the browser side, so the only way LJ could fail to support it is if they went out of their way to strip MathML markup from our posts. The real problem is that MathML support in browsers is still ( ... )
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