LaTeX issue and links

[Unknown008]

I just came back to the site after a little while (okay, maybe not so little), but I stumbled twice on some issues where LaTeX and the automatic parsing of some keywords (I may have missed a thread about it, I tried looking for recent threads already addressing the issue but most were either system downs, or something else).

For example:

\(\displaystyle \angle{ABC}\)

\(\displaystyle \text{Area of triangle ABC} = \dfrac12 bh = \dfrac12 ab\sin\left(\hat{c}\right)\)

These work on preview, but fail when posted. Well, I can work around the second example I guess, by typing those outside the LaTeX tags and the first by using '\hat' on B or a '\widehat' but I was just wondering whether there was an option (checkbox) I'm missing somewhere which disables the parsing of key?

 

[JeffM]

I just came back to the site after a little while (okay, maybe not so little), but I stumbled twice on some issues where LaTeX and the automatic parsing of some keywords (I may have missed a thread about it, I tried looking for recent threads already addressing the issue but most were either system downs, or something else).

For example:

\(\displaystyle \angle{ABC}\)

\(\displaystyle \text{Area of triangle ABC} = \dfrac12 bh = \dfrac12 ab\sin\left(\hat{c}\right)\)

These work on preview, but fail when posted. Well, I can work around the second example I guess, by typing those outside the LaTeX tags and the first by using '\hat' on B or a '\widehat' but I was just wondering whether there was an option (checkbox) I'm missing somewhere which disables the parsing of key?

As you have discovered, there is some glitch where if you use a keyword for the first time within LaTex, the statement parses in preview, but not when posted. As far as I know, the only work-around is to use the keyword first outside LaTeX.

 

[Unknown008]

Indeed, I noticed that as well. I guess I'll just have to edit my posts each time I notice such things, because I don't think I'll check for those keywords when I type down the posts ^^;

Thanks!