New Rule about jsMath

[gmalivuk]

While jsMath is amazingly helpful for displaying complex formulas, it does significantly slow down page loading for a lot of people.

Therefore, please refrain from using it for things which are perfectly easy to display using plain text and other bbcode tags.

If you just want to raise something to an exponent, use ^[sup].
If you just want a subscript, use _[sub].
If you just want to make clear what letters are variables as opposed to commentary text, make them italic or bold instead of [math]y.
These characters and strings are perfectly usable in ASCII: { } | -> <- ... ! < > != and so on.

[Dopefish]

How about formulas that contain greek letters? Should the greek letter actually be typed out, as in p=h/(lambda), or is use of math tags acceptable there?

Personally I find typed out greek letters somewhat cluttery, especially if it's typed more then once, but the formulas themselves aren't necessarily complicated.

(I suppose my example isn't a good one as p=hf/c is fine, but that's besides my point.)

[Dropzone]

How about formulas that contain greek letters? Should the greek letter actually be typed out, as in p=h/(lambda), or is use of math tags acceptable there?

Personally I find typed out greek letters somewhat cluttery, especially if it's typed more then once, but the formulas themselves aren't necessarily complicated.

(I suppose my example isn't a good one as p=hf/c is fine, but that's besides my point.)

You could just use the appropriate Unicode character (e.g. p=h/λ). This might be useful to copy-paste from.

[The EGE]

This dohickey may be useful as well, if you know LaTeX. LaTeX goes in, linkable image goes out.

[Dopefish]

I suppose either of those work, although it's still a pain to need to stop writing the post and go to some other site half way through a response.

I don't use equations 'that' regularly so I guess it's not a huge deal, but it does seem like this'll be somewhat inconvenient when occasions do arrise.

[gmalivuk]

If you need to have a complicated equation, go ahead and use the math or imath tags. I'm just requesting that they not be used for mundane things that aren't worth slowing people's browsing down for.

[Odd_nonposter]

Thank you for this rule. I am one of the many who read this forum and have trouble with jsmath loading.

[Qaanol]

My personal solution was the create a custom keyboard layout. It’s almost identical to the standard layout (for Mac OS X) but has a few hotkeys that go into special modes like Greek, Math, Logic, Sub/Superscript, and several others. If anyone is interested I’d be happy to share my keyboard layout.

I still have to use the character viewer if I want certain things like Planck’s constant (ℎ), but if I want h-bar I have that: ℏ. Maybe I’ll add ℎ next time I update it. Here are some examples of what I can type fairly easily:

ℚ² ⊂ ℝ²

∀x ∈ A×B, ∃y ∈ C: P(x) ⇒ ¬(Q(x) ⋀ R(y))

∭(∇⋅F)dV = ∯(F⋅n)dS

[gmalivuk]

∭(∇⋅F)dV = ∯(F⋅n)dS

I need to more than double my font size to easily recognize those integrals. But in general I'd expect and be fine with integration being done with jsMath.

[Tass]

∭(∇⋅F)dV = ∯(F⋅n)dS

I need to more than double my font size to easily recognize those integrals. But in general I'd expect and be fine with integration being done with jsMath.

They read just fine for me.

[Dream]

gmal, this might be above a magistrate's pay grade, but is there any chance of a specific ban on jsmath in signatures? I don't know of any offending me at the moment, but I've seen it in the past and been irritated by it.

[Diadem]

I use my mobile phone a lot to browse these here forums. js doesn't function vert well on them, so thanks for this rule. It also slows my regular pc down, so another reason to support this.

By the way, most of those symbols Qaanol posted work, but not the integrals. Anyone know what gives? Using android here

[Griffin]

Just means your version of Android (maybe all of them) don't ship with that characters in whatever font it uses. Apparently which Android you're using matters. Not a lot you can do about it, though the newer versions do support embedded web fonts - that would have to be enabled on the forum end, though.