When linking to other sites in latex with \href, the actual latex shows, instead of what should be shown

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poopsiedoodle · Answer

attachment

compassionate · Answer

No - that's because you can only link using the href to OpenStudy domains. You can't link external sites.

poopsiedoodle · Answer

It works on other websites that use latex tho :(

thomaster · Answer

Yea, but not on openstudy

poopsiedoodle · Answer

but whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

compassionate · Answer

Because no one wants to be LaTex'ed to spam and phishing links

poopsiedoodle · Answer

right click>show tex commands

not that hard to avoid.

compassionate · Answer

If you're computer literate. OpenStudy is user-friendly.

poopsiedoodle · Answer

If you don't know about the right clicking though, you probably won't know that you're $supposed$ to click the blue words.

compassionate · Answer

Meh. That's how OpenStudy is designed and it probably won't change. Oh-well.