CL now understands latex type!

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I would recommend just copying and pasting from Desmos for most LaTeX needs. My 2nd stop would be to use http://mathurl.com/ (which will generate images but can also be used to identify the right code). A more desperate approach to find a weird symbol would be to go to https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html where you can draw in a symbol that you don’t know the name of and it will try to guess what you are after.

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Please see this: It will help you to get started in CL
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There is a LaTeX wikibook that I often use when I want to know how to do something:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Mathematics

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This is huge @denis. Gonna make my CL looks a lot cleaner.
-Thanks

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Thanks to everyone for their suggestions and help.

Much appreciated!
Dianne

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where did you find to look?

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I agree with you! Even if the calculator doesn’t evaluate, we still use in other areas like notes!

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I’ll add that you can use the equatIO chrome app on a google image search page (or when viewing anything math online). It’s super easy to take a screenshot and turn it into latex that you can then copy/paste!
If you have MathType, you can use the “Toggle Tex” command in Word.

One thing to watch for: different platforms use different symbols for the start and stop of the latex. You’ll drop those when you copy and paste.

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'For a comprehensive corse on LaTeX, look to Overleaf.com

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You can use this same copy and paste trick using text from Desmos graphing component or stand alone grapher.

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Latex for boldface?

\textbf{greatest}

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Yes please! Support for this in actual CL would be useful

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While experimenting I found that underline for text (\underline{text}) in a note defined through ‘content:’ produces an underline effect. Unfortunately, the text is italicized as well, making it look too emphatic!

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I use https://www.rapidtables.com/math/symbols/Basic_Math_Symbols.html#geometry for most things if I don’t know the code… v annoying that the latex is not incorporated more consistently

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Thank you! I was looking all over for the “angle” symbol.

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Is it possible to use latex within the computational layer. Suppose I wanted to put a^x or log to base b of x into content but with nice formatting.

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Thanks Travis. That will be helpful in the future. Unfortunately I didn’t see basic operation symbols like the division sign there, so maybe the best solution is to just copy it from the symbols in Word.

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Just type in a^{x}and that should work for you.

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I made this for y’all https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/5f90d154f63f7a34f63b6e3d

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It’s in there, you just have to scroll up a little, here it is as well: ÷