I’ve made some backend upgrades and some tweaks to the interface. The most important thing to note is that we are now less forgiving about typesetting paragraph text in math mode and math in paragraph mode.Make sure you have the right “format as” setting! (This is the drop-down menu next to the “make mathURL” button.)
If you have a single equation, the default “format as:” setting of “equation” is appropriate, but if you’re typesetting multiple equations mixed with text, you’ll want to change that to “paragraph”.
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January 23, 2010 at 2:09 pm
Hi, I see that mathurl has not been working since yesterday. It keeps saying latex failed. Please fix it asap
January 23, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Hm, that probably means there’s a syntax error in the input you’re giving it. Care to post it?
January 25, 2010 at 5:28 pm
Yes, here it is
http://mathurl.com/yetg89k
have to submit an assignment by tonight, so was hoping to get it working soon
January 25, 2010 at 7:38 pm
It’s somewhat unclear to me what you’re going for with all those \ \ \ and &. If I wrap your code in an align* environment and remove all the blank lines, I get this: http://mathurl.com/yd4l5ps
However, this is not really the right way to go about it — you really need to use the real LaTeX syntax as mentioned on the help page: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Mathematics and http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Advanced_Mathematics. If you try to make up your own syntax there’s no way for the LaTeX interpreter to know what you mean.
Hope that helps.
January 23, 2010 at 6:52 pm
I too have the same problem,
this is my link:
Thermodynamics
January 24, 2010 at 12:35 am
Have a look at this version: http://mathurl.com/y92j74k
In paragraph mode, you need to use the usual LaTeX equation markers, \[ and \] for displayed equations and $ for inline equations.
March 2, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Hi,
Very nice work! Would it be possible to also allow latex to be sent as a parameter? For instance;
“http://mathurl.com/p/\sum_{i=0}^\infty x_i”,
and have the output of the image http://mathurl.com/yh3bx3q.png?
March 5, 2010 at 5:41 am
Hi Fredrik,
If I understand correctly, you’re asking for an API for LaTeX’ing and returning a PNG?
Unfortunately, this falls outside of the scope of mathURL — this site is really intended for interactive human use. However, there’s quite a few alternatives here, which can already do what you want:
http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/?p=59