Using MimeTeX 2

As we have already covered the basics of MimeTeX, this page is devoted to the characters you can use.

Maths symbols available in Moodle

A number of the characters and symbols below have already been covered in previous pages, but this is a more exhaustive list. There are a number more, but their relevance to K-12 maths is questionable.

Keyboard characters are available as themselves but many characters have a significance in TeX. All control sequences start with the backslash, \, and have no end character. All command sequences start and end with the $$. There are a number of different types of charsets available, not just Maths but also scientific sets but these need be installed to your Moodle if you want additional charsets.

Symbols

These are not all the symbols that may be available in MimeTeX, just the ones that I have found to work in Moodle.

\amalg	$\amalg$	\cup	$\cup$	\oplus	$\oplus$	\times	$\times$
\ast	$\ast$	\dagger	$\dagger$	\oslash	$\oslash$	\triangleleft	$\triangleleft$
\bigcirc	$\bigcirc$	\ddagger	$\ddagger$	\otimes	$\otimes$	\triangleright	$\triangleright$
\bigtriangledown	$\bigtriangledown$	\diamond	$\diamond$	\pm	$\pm$	\odot	$\odot$
\bigtriangleup	$\bigtriangleup$	\div	$\div$	\ominus	$\ominus$	\wr	$\wr$
\circ	$\circ$	\wedge	$\wedge$	\vee	$\vee$	\sqcup	$\sqcup$
\leq	$\leq$	\geq	$\geq$	\equiv	$\equiv$	\prec	$\prec$
\succ	$\succ$	\sim	$\sim$	\perp	$\perp$	\preceq	$\preceq$
\succeq	$\succeq$	\simeq	$\simeq$	\mid	$\mid$	\ll	$\ll$
\gg	$\gg$	\asymp	Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \asymp}	\parallel	Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \parallel}	\subset	Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \subset}
\supset	Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \supset}	\subseteq	Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \subseteq}	\supseteq	Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \supseteq}	\approx	Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \approx}
\neq	Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \neq}	\ni	Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \ni}	\notin	Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \notin}	\in	Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \ni}
\vdash	Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \vdash}	\dashv	Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \dashv}	\bullet	$\bullet$	\cdot	$\cdot$

Arrows

Arrows

\leftarrow	$\leftarrow$	\longleftarrow	$\longleftarrow$	\Leftarrow	$\Leftarrow$	\Longleftarrow	$\Longleftarrow$
\rightarrow	$\rightarrow$	\longrightarrow	$\longrightarrow$	\Rightarrow	$\Rightarrow$	\Longrightarrow	$\Longrightarrow$
\uparrow	$\uparrow$	\Uparrow	$\Uparrow$	\downarrow	$\downarrow$	\Downarrow	$\Downarrow$
\leftrightarrow	$\leftrightarrow$	\longleftrightarrow	$\longleftrightarrow$	\updownarrow	$\updownarrow$	\Updownarrow	$\Updownarrow$
\Leftrightarrow	$\Leftrightarrow$	\Longleftrightarrow	$\Longleftrightarrow$	\leftrightharpoon	$\rightleftharpoons$	\Im	$\Im$
\nearrow	$\nearrow$	\nwarrow	$\nwarrow$	\swarrow	$\swarrow$	\searrow	$\searrow$

Delimiters and Maths Constructs

NOTE: Most delimiters and constructs need additional parameters for them to appear appropriately.

\{x	$\{x$	\}	$x|\}$	\rangle	$\rangle$	\langle	$\langle$
\angle	$\angle$	\=	$\|$	\sqrt{ab}	${\sqrt {ab}}$	\sqrt[n]{ab}	${\sqrt[{n}]{ab}}$
\frac{ab}{cd}	${\frac {ab}{cd}}$	\backslash	$\backslash$	\widehat{ab}	${\widehat {ab}}$	\$	$\$$
\overline{ab}	${\overline {ab}}$	\underline{ab}	${\underline {ab}}$	\therefore	$\therefore$	\ddots	$\ddots$
\%	$\%$	\#	$\#$	\vdots	$\vdots$	\emptyset	$\emptyset$

WARNINGS: The & character in </math>LaTeX</math> usually requires a | \. In </math>TeX</math>, apparently, it does not. Other packages, AsciiMath, when it becomes available, may use it differently again so be careful using it. The copyright character may use the default MimeTeX charset, and produces a copyright notice for John Forkosh Associates.

There are also a number of characters that can be used in MimeTeX but do not render in this page:

Larger \left(x and \right) brackets

\widetilde{ab}

\textdegree or (50)^\circ

Greek Letters

$\alpha$	\alpha	$\beta$	\beta	$\gamma$	\gamma
$\delta$	\delta	$\epsilon$	\epsilon	$\zeta$	\zeta
$\eta$	\eta	$\theta$	\theta	$\iota$	\iota
$\kappa$	\kappa	$\lambda$	\lambda	$\mu$	\mu
$\xi$	\xi	$\pi$	\pi	$\rho$	\rho
$\sigma$	\sigma	$\tau$	\tau	Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \upsilon}	\upsilon
Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \phi}	\phi	Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \chi}	\chi	Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \psi}	\psi
Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \omega}	\omega	Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \Omega}	\Omega	Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \Theta}	\Theta
Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \Delta}	\Delta	Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \Pi}	\Pi	Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \Phi}	\Phi

Notable Exceptions

Greek letter omicron. Simply put, omicron is an "o" or an "O".

Fonts

To use a particular font you need to access the font using the same syntax as demonstrated above.

A math calligraphic font:

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathcal{ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ}}

or

$$ \mathcal{ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ}$$

A Castellar type font:

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbb{ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ}}

or

$$ \mathbb{ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ}$$

An Old English type font:

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathfrak{ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ}}

or

$$ \mathfrak{ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ}$$

An italic font:

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathi{ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ}}

or

$$ \mathi{ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ} $$

A bold-face font:

Failed to parse (SVG (MathML can be enabled via browser plugin): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mathbf{ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ}}

or

$$ \mathbf{ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ} $$

See Also

• Using MimeTeX