At SFN, we use a custom LaTeX solution to render LaTeX equations in Invision’s IP.Board. The implementation is based on Dave’s vbLatex, which produces incredibly nice-looking equations so long as you have LaTeX installed. It also supports inline chemical equations using the mhchem package.
Since we moved to IPB over vBulletin, I’ve adapted vbLatex to IPB, given it a few shiny new features, and now I’m releasing it under the LGPL as Dave has done with his earlier work.
You can see examples of ipbLatex at work in our LaTeX tutorial; click the equations for the fancy pop-up effect.
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SFN now has global blog searching. Use the search box in the upper right to search for terms in blog posts, or use View New Content or View Active Content to see recent blog posts. Report any bugs you find to me.
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but I want a new version, with: Higher-resolution screen (200 DPI or more?) with greater contrast Full Unicode fonts (or at least handle the Euro symbol, Cyrillic and the Greek alphabet) Bigger, more responsive screen Better fonts and typography (proper small-caps, LaTeX-style justification and hyphenation algorithm, etc.) More attention paid to formatting in books and …
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Everyone has a position. It’s a fact of life. Ask any American person about a political issue and you can be sure that he will have an opinion about it. He might oppose the government’s actions, support them, or simply state that he doesn’t care enough about that issue to go either way. Each of …
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Has anyone considered how weird socks are? I mean, really. It’s like putting a hat on your foot. You’re sort of just wrapping two important appendages in fabric. It even looks weird, when you think about it. That has been today’s weird moment. May you never look at a sock the same way again.
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Back in October I wrote my moderation observations, and optimistically titled the post “part 1,” presumably believing that I had enough profound thoughts on the subject to add more to the series. It’s perhaps time I follow up on that idea, and while I don’t know if they’re profound, I certainly have thoughts…
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So it seems a thread on SFN inspired me to create Alex’s Law of Internet argumentation. I’d like to elaborate a bit on that, and propose a new Law or two: Alex’s First Law As soon as an online discussion becomes an argument, the participants will never admit they are wrong, no matter how strong …
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Evangelical minister Ray Comfort recently put out a “150th Anniversary Edition” of On the Origin of Species, with a Special Introduction attacking Darwin, the theory of evolution, and atheism. Yeah, big deal. It’s been all over the Internet lately. Well, as an assignment for one of my university courses, I wrote a nice report on …
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I’ve been a moderator here at SFN for almost four years now, and an administrator for about three. (The promotion to administrator was rather ad-hoc and I’m not entirely sure when it happened in retrospect; one day blike needed help fixing something in vBulletin and he promoted me so I had access to the right …
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