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Just wanted to point out that this is not friendly for beginners. A beginner will be lost between a lot of "\frac"s and "{}"s (I don't know the name in English,

by aaossa 10y ago

Just wanted to point out that this is not friendly for beginners. A beginner will be lost between a lot of "\frac"s and "{}"s (I don't know the name in English, sorry). Been there

18nleung 10y ago
{} are "brackets"/"curly brackets" :)
- aaossa 10y ago
  Thanks! :)
- umanwizard 10y ago
  No, [ ] are brackets; { } are braces. (Disambiguating with an adjective does make it ok to use either -- "Curly brackets" are still { }, and "square braces" are still [ ] )
  - milesrout 10y ago
    No, they aren't. () are brackets, [] are square brackets, {} are curly brackets. 'Brackets' always refers to () unless specifically you say 'square'. Stop imposing your stupid American stuff on people.
    - Y_Y 10y ago
      I agree with your content, but not your tone. I'd like to add that one often hears "round brackets" as an unambiguous terms for the first category. And where's love for angle brackets <chevrons>?
    - umanwizard 10y ago
      There are substantially more Americans than people in any other English-speaking country, and, to top it off, we're on an American forum. It's not "stupid" to assume the dialect we're using is American English. Why the aggressiveness?
      - jsilence 10y ago
        Because the cultural ignorance you are showing is annoying. There are vastly more people speaking english in the world than there are US Americans. On top of that: Most of the Americans are speaking spanish and portuguese. America != US America for one.
clishem 10y ago
The problem is that this is a really tiny subset of what you can write with LaTeX, even for high school students it won't be enough. I'd much rather use something like https://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php https://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php as a beginner.
- OJFord 10y ago
  Yep - even 'min' is missing. `min_` becomes `m \in _`, seemingly no way to force it to work, `{min}` or `\min` don't.
milesrout 10y ago
No, they won't.

by aaossa 10y ago

Just wanted to point out that this is not friendly for beginners. A beginner will be lost between a lot of "\frac"s and "{}"s (I don't know the name in English, sorry). Been there

18nleung 10y ago

{} are "brackets"/"curly brackets" :)

aaossa 10y ago
Thanks! :)
umanwizard 10y ago
No, [ ] are brackets; { } are braces. (Disambiguating with an adjective does make it ok to use either -- "Curly brackets" are still { }, and "square braces" are still [ ] )
- milesrout 10y ago
  No, they aren't. () are brackets, [] are square brackets, {} are curly brackets. 'Brackets' always refers to () unless specifically you say 'square'. Stop imposing your stupid American stuff on people.
  - Y_Y 10y ago
    I agree with your content, but not your tone. I'd like to add that one often hears "round brackets" as an unambiguous terms for the first category. And where's love for angle brackets <chevrons>?
  - umanwizard 10y ago
    There are substantially more Americans than people in any other English-speaking country, and, to top it off, we're on an American forum. It's not "stupid" to assume the dialect we're using is American English. Why the aggressiveness?
    - jsilence 10y ago
      Because the cultural ignorance you are showing is annoying. There are vastly more people speaking english in the world than there are US Americans. On top of that: Most of the Americans are speaking spanish and portuguese. America != US America for one.

clishem 10y ago

The problem is that this is a really tiny subset of what you can write with LaTeX, even for high school students it won't be enough. I'd much rather use something like https://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php https://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php as a beginner.

OJFord 10y ago
Yep - even 'min' is missing. `min_` becomes `m \in _`, seemingly no way to force it to work, `{min}` or `\min` don't.

milesrout 10y ago

No, they won't.