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Math in Wikispaces

May 21st, 2007 by Adam

We’ve just released a very powerful way for people to use mathematical formulas in their Wikispaces pages: LaTex support.

If you are familiar with LaTex, all you need to do is wrap your LaTex formula in [[math]] tags like this:

[[math]]
\tilde{f}(\omega)=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f(t) e^{-i\omega t}\,dt
[[math]]

That code will display this:

math.gif

If you aren’t familiar with LaTex, now might be a great time to learn. Here are a couple of good resources.

Chapter 3, “Typesetting Mathematical Formulae”, of “The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2” is a good overview of LaTex math markup.

Andrew Roberts provides two sections on Mathematics in his “Getting to grips with LaTeX“.

Enjoy, and leave a comment with a link to your math pages.

15 Responses to “Math in Wikispaces”

  1. on 22 May 2007 at 9:46 am1 Educational Technology and Life » Blog Archive » Link: Math in Wikispaces

    […] Math in Wikispaces (Via Wikispaces Blog.) Wikispaces has added support for LaTex mathematical markup. It looks a bit technical for most teachers, but perhaps this is something math teachers know or would be more than happy to learn given the results - really cool looking formulas on a wiki. :) […]

  2. on 25 May 2007 at 9:54 am2 Middle School Hacks » another test blogroll 05/24/2007

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  3. on 26 May 2007 at 5:02 pm3 Mike Shepperd

    There is no need to learn LaTex. Use the free software Texaide to create the expression. Highlight and then copy the expression. Paste into the wikispaces editor. Remove unwanted text. Add the [[math]] tags. Example:

    [[math]]
    x = \frac{{^ - b \pm \sqrt {b^2 - 4ac} }}{{2a}}
    [[math]]

    I also use this approach when inserting an expression as text in GeoGebra.

    http://www.dessci.com/en/products/texaide/
    http://www.geogebra.org

  4. on 31 May 2007 at 12:34 pm4 Maurice Matiz

    Excellent. For educational uses this is a big plus and another selling point. Thanks.

  5. on 31 May 2007 at 1:57 pm5 Elimax

    LaTeX is very good, and the TeXaide tip was very good too… but I still don’t know how to put formulae inline, not just in a separate block. If anyone could help me…

  6. on 03 Jun 2007 at 12:41 pm6 Brett

    Mike, if you change your translation settings in TeXaide, you shouldn’t have any text to delete every time.

  7. on 17 Jun 2007 at 6:32 pm7 nghongpin

    [[math]]
    \[y = \int\limits_0^2 {\sin \frac{x}{2}dx}
    \]
    [[math]]

  8. on 19 Jun 2007 at 12:41 am8 sabbab

    can anyone help me with continued fractrions i.e. i want to know how i could write the Fibonacci numbers for example, in continued fraction form on the wiki.

  9. on 20 Jul 2007 at 9:07 pm9 david

    \cfrac{2}{1+\cfrac{2}{1+\cfrac{2}{1+\cfrac{2}{1}}}}
    See http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/LaTeX/AoPS_L_GuideCommands.php

  10. on 07 Sep 2007 at 7:47 am10 .mau.

    Is it possible to have //inline// math formulas? As far as I can see, the only way to have [[math]] … [[math]] work is to let the markup, on a line by themselves, but this means that each formula takes a line by itself.

    As a workaround I may use a lot of \mbox{}es, see an example at http://xmau.wikispaces.com/test, but this is usually a mess :-(

  11. on 07 Sep 2007 at 12:06 pm11 Dom

    Right now, the only way is inside a block. Inline math formulas aren’t supported yet.

  12. on 19 Sep 2007 at 3:18 am12 suma valluru

    thats really a great idea of math with Latex…

    cheers,
    suma valluru
    —————————————–
    http://www.esumz.com

  13. on 06 Nov 2007 at 12:47 pm13 blogability » Blog Archive » Doing the maths

    […] Math in wiki-spaces […]

  14. on 22 Nov 2007 at 12:32 pm14 Andrés Forero

    Hey, do you know if it’s possible to insert math formulas within tables?
    Also, is it possible to support accents within \text{}? My site is in Spanish, so I have to use them a lot, but the page crashes if I insert an accent in \text{} environment.

    Thanks

  15. on 24 Nov 2007 at 11:24 pm15 James

    Hi Andrés,

    It’s not currently possible to put formulas in tables, but this is something that may change in the future. We’ll let you know as it does.

    Can you point us to a page that has a broken \text{} section with accented characters?

    Thanks,
    James