LaTeX based chat

http://www.mathim.com/

by chromophore • 17 years ago

77 22 17 years ago

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jey• 17 years ago

How about if we meet/test in room "HN"? http://www.mathim.com/HN

lamby• 17 years ago

Needs more tornado. Or, err, twisted.web.

Dilpil• 17 years ago

Wow, I'm glad I don't have to use LaTex.

weaksauce• 17 years ago

Yeah it's OK for typesetting books but very verbose for chatting. Though if you need to chat about integrals and the like I guess you are stuck with it.

almost• 17 years ago

We're just talking about LaTeX's math mode here. Are there any more concise and easier ways to type math on a normal keyboard and have it display in a pretty way?

tesseract2• 17 years ago

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin-latex/

Adium used to have a plugin for this too, which I used to use, but I haven't bothered to see if there's a current version.

CrazedGeek• 17 years ago

http://adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=5577

Last update was a little under a year ago.

catzaa2• 17 years ago

Nice. Would be nice if it use MathML (or something like that) instead of images.

btn• 17 years ago

The point of using LaTeX to render an image is that it preserves the beautiful and precise layout that only the (La)TeX engine can give.

catzaa2• 17 years ago

Maybe. I have used latex extensively (and is now currently busy typing my dissertation in Latex). I personally think that Latex is a bit overrated.

There can be much better programs and Latex's applicability is fairly limited. It takes hours to get something to look right.

ludwig• 17 years ago

You can also use http://thewe.net/tex/ to type out equations on gmail (as well as in the gmail chat).

jgrahamc• 17 years ago

Neat. Some time ago I made a little web site that can turn LaTeX into a PNG file for those times when you need a quick equation (or inequality): http://equationater.com/

benhoyt• 17 years ago

Note that on http://www.mathim.com/translate/ when you type anything with a slash in it (eg: "x/2") it tries to go to http://www.mathim.com/translate/x/2 and fails, presumably because it's trying to interpret the slash as a directory separator.

Edit: cool, looks like you fixed the http://www.mathim.com/translate/x/2 as I spoke. Though the image at http://render.mathim.com/x/2 is still broken.

dlaz• 17 years ago

I did this a few years back for an independent study in college. Once the semester was over I never touched it again though. Hopefully they'll do a better job.

http://carnap.cs-i.brandeis.edu/~dlaz/dev/groupmath/chat.xml, for anyone who's interested.

DaniFong• 17 years ago

The interface for Mathematica, which typically consists of bracketing special characters with escape characters, is a lot less cumbersome than LaTeX for writing something quickly. For example, the integral of the square root of x is entered

esc int esc ctrl-2 x left arrow esc dd esc x. Shift-enter evaluates the thing to 2/3 x^3/2.

LaTeX based chat

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