There's an official Discourse plugin (link below) that would allow for users to post LaTeX style equations and have them rendered. As far as I can tell, this plugin is not enabled on this Discourse (test: $x^2$ ). Would have made my first post look a bit cleaner.
For example this $\mathbf{N}^p(\xi) = [ N_0^p(\xi), N_1^p(\xi), \dots, N_p^p(\xi) ]^T$ would have rendered as
Good idea. Turns out this is a standard, "supported" plugin for discourse, so I've enabled. it. There were several options that I could select, and I have no particular opinion about any of them. Here's a screenshot, in case anyone thinks that these other options should be enabled.
There's an official Discourse plugin (link below) that would allow for users to post LaTeX style equations and have them rendered. As far as I can tell, this plugin is not enabled on this Discourse (test: x^2 ). Would have made my first post look a bit cleaner.
For example this $\mathbf{N}^p(\xi) = [ N_0^p(\xi), N_1^p(\xi), \dots, N_p^p(\xi) ]^T$ would have rendered as
My comment is not so much about math per se, but more generally I'd
prefer the postings (which I read as a mailing list) remain as close to
plain text as possible. I understand most people use the web interface
(or at least read mail as HTML), and might feel differently about more
structured posting, but even the [quote] etc... markup causes my eyes to
glaze over and my fingers to consider unsubscribing.
I skimmed it, but didn't read carefully to see why it might not always be on. Is there some reason that this is not on by default? Maybe we should just turn it on and see what happens?
