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Special Chars.
« on: August 10, 2008, 07:21:52 PM »
You should add buttons to insert at the cursor often needed and used special characters, such as delta and sigma and nice arrows and the middle dot and such.

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Re: Special Chars.
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2008, 10:31:29 PM »
Although buttons in the forum interface would definitely be useful, Firefox has a nice add-on (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/459) which allows you to insert some special characters.

Of course, what I really hope for is the ability to use LaTeX coding on the forum, but I'd imagine it'd be hard to implement.

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Re: Special Chars.
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2008, 01:07:06 AM »
Only physicists use LaTeX, we're a chemistry community. :p
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Re: Special Chars.
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2008, 01:19:02 AM »
 :-* :delta: :-*
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Re: Special Chars.
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2008, 01:23:28 AM »
aC2H4 + bO2  :rarrow: cCO2 + dH2O
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Re: Special Chars.
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2008, 10:35:59 AM »
Only physicists use LaTeX, we're a chemistry community. :p

No love for the physical chemists?

Awesome work with the new symbols though.

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Re: Special Chars.
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2008, 12:15:24 PM »
There is a latex server somewhere, where you can embed an image with a php extension and Latex code and it'll output the latex in a bmp format. I've seen a few people use it around the forums a couple of times.
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Re: Special Chars.
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2008, 03:04:04 PM »
Instructions for the LaTeX server are at this post: http://www.chemicalforums.com/index.php?topic=22095.0

Thanks for reminding me of that.  I remember using it previously and it was very useful.

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Re: Special Chars.
« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2008, 10:44:29 PM »
Although buttons in the forum interface would definitely be useful, Firefox has a nice add-on (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/459) which allows you to insert some special characters.

Yes I know. *cough* I told you about it on this form a while back *cough*.

I use it all the time, I was thinking more like making questions easier to read!

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