Talk:Using TeX Notation

At this point it would not be appropriate to promote another TeX package so please be careful. it might be better to add a link to another page that could describe how to change to a full TeX package.--Colin Fraser 15:06, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Bit inaccurate

The problem, Colin, is that a good deal of this material is inaccurate and I don;t want to start a documentation war - lol- as you know that I agree that documentation is inadequate. WHile I owuld also agree with some of your "editorializing":

The various brands of TeX and other math markup languages have become
something of a nightmare to try and find any reasonable consistency.
Most use sub-sets and variations of TeX rules and fonts and symbols
that seem to be developed on the whim of the developer rather than
any consistent mathematical strategy. Also the lack of user friendly
documentation has worked against the easy spread of knowledge here,
but what is worse, and this is the problem for the Moodle Community,
the lack of directly related documentation in using TeX Notation in
Moodle has not been helpful. (Having said these things, I am sure that
many people will disagree - but I accept there is a large difference
between what the developers of the various TeX "standards" consider
"consistent" and reality..:) ) Please help by adding your own examples
and rules to these pages. If you notice an error, please change it, if
you see something missing, please add it. 

I don't know that it belongs in the doc itself... Marc Grober 21:13, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

Do not think there is much in the way of ego here, I wax profanely due to ignorance as much as knowledge sometimes..:) That is just what I do! You might want to try reading Cicero, my kind of editorializing!!! Anyway, there is a need for accuracy, if there is anything that is so woefully inaccurate that it may reflect poorly on the value of the information that is included, please change it.