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mathteacher1729 | 12 years ago

I will be sharing this with my students.

A few comments are below. My motivation behind the comments is based on how students who are new to LaTeX tend to misuse or not fully recognize the full power of LaTeX. I realize that this may not be the target audience of your project and so if any of my comments are not appropriate, please disregard them.

* Mention that \( .. \) is the same as $...$ and \[ ... \] is the same as $$...$$ and that each will slightly alter the appearance of limits, integrals, and sums. TO put it another way, make clear the difference between display math vs. inline math.

* Rename Brackets "Stretchy brackets"? (Presently you have \left( x \right) which, to a new user is no different than simply writing (x).)

* Powers and Indices should mention that x_{...} is only required if more than one character is being used as a sub/superscript.

* Under matrices, there is no need for the left and right delimters. There are three commonly used environments: bmatrix, pmatrix, and vmatrix for matrices enclosed by brackets, parenthesis and vertical bars. More types are listed here: http://www.sascha-frank.com/Faq/matrices.html

* The inclusion of an aligned equations template is wonderful.

* The table template would be better if it followed the style guides suggested here: http://tug.org/pracjourn/2007-1/mori/

* Double and triple integrals without bounds can be written as \iint and \iiint respectively. (no need for a series of \! between individual \int).

* It would be nice to toggle the collapse/expansion of a menu by clicking it. Presently clicking it allows me to expand and the only way to collapse is to click on another.

* Throw \LaTeX\ in there somewhere. It's not necessary, but would be nice to have.

Thank you for creating this, I am sure it will be very helpful for my students!

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huy|12 years ago

Thank you for the thoughtful answer. I'm really happy that you find it useful. I have noted your feedback and will work through it.

> students who are new to LaTeX tend to misuse or not fully recognize the full power of LaTeX. I realize that this may not be the target audience of your project and so if any of my comments are not appropriate, please disregard them.

These are actually the perfect audience for the project. You see, the main thing that this tool offers is _convenience_, which is much appreciated by the LaTeX beginners thanks to its steep learning curve and complicated software setups. So please do share it with your students, I hope this helps them one way or another :)

By the way, I've got a proper domain for it: www.texpaste.com

mkl|12 years ago

The layouts of the page and the maths are doing weird things for me. The page layout problem seems zoom-related.

http://imgur.com/CulHI3N (Chrome 29.0.1547.57 on Ubuntu 12.10, 125% zoom)