Don't suppose you guys could set up OpenStudy to use the chemfig http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chemfig/ package in your server TeX?

I have no personal interest in this; it's really the poor students in Chemistry and Biology who probably don't need it anyways.

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Don't suppose you guys could set up OpenStudy to use the chemfig http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/chemfig/ package in your server TeX?

I have no personal interest in this; it's really the poor students in Chemistry and Biology who probably don't need it anyways.

farmdawgnation · Answer

Hm. Not a bad idea. It's something we can look into. We use MathJAX for our TeX rendering, so if they support that module it should be possible.

Thanks for the suggestion!

anonymous · Answer

It'd be cool if you guys also made support for the \begin{tabular}\end{tabular} commands, as well as \displaymath{}.

You know, just saying. Although it is cool that I can do this:$$\boxed{\circ\boxed{\circ\boxed{\circ\boxed{\circ\boxed{\circ\boxed{\circ\boxed{\circ\boxed{\circ\boxed{\circ\boxed{\circ\boxed{\circ}}\boxed{\begin{bmatrix}\text{I LOVE YOU}\\text{YOU LOVE ME}\end{bmatrix}}}}}}}}}}}$$But now my computer's lagging. :(

shadowfiend · Answer

Tabular isn't going to happen. MathJax only implements the math subset of LaTeX, not all of LaTeX. chemfig seems to rely on TikZ, which means it won't be happening either.

Sorry!

As for displaymath, all math is in display mode if you delimit it by \ [ \ ] and inline mode if you delimit it by \ ( \ ). Was there something in particular about the displaymath environment you found missing?

Notably, you can use align and other amsmath environments and commands.

anonymous · Answer

Actually, I meant \displaystyle, but I mixed that up with \displaymath while testing, so I was under the impression it didn't work. My bad!

Also, I think one can approximate the tabular environment using math-specific arrays, so it's all good.$$\underbrace{\huge{\text{Let's see if this works...}}}_{\text{Yes, it does!}}$$

shadowfiend · Answer

Got it; yep! :)

anonymous · Answer

$$\xymatrix{\bullet\ar[r]\ar@{.>}[r]&\bullet}$$Could you guys actually get the xy-pic package? I don't think it's TikZ.

shadowfiend · Answer

While it looks like there are people working on porting xypic to MathJax at the moment it's not supported.

anonymous · Answer

:( Guess I can't go around drawing giant smiley faces.