Question

Somebody teach me the ways of this divine magic

Answer 1

\(\Huge\mathfrak{can~noob~get~the~skillz}\)

Answer 2

you are not worthy!

Answer 3

\(\Tiny\text{:c how do i become worthy}\)

Answer 4

Bahahah

Answer 5

really

Answer 6

Did you look at any of the tutorials?

Answer 7

All I've looked at is poopsiedoodle's big book o' LaTeX.
Most of the tutorials confuse me >.<

Answer 8

they do not confuse me

Answer 9

Well, much of it can be copied. What is it that you are trying to do? The math part or more artistic?

Answer 10

I was just wondering if there was a method to remembering the coding words really...

Answer 11

Most of them are what they do. \dfrac{}{} Display sized FRACtion, as opposed to \tfrac{}{} Text sixed FRACtion:

Some text then a dfrac \(\dfrac{a}{b}\) followed by a tfrac \(\tfrac{a}{b}\). The text sized fraction works nicely inline for keeping the same line width, but it small so does not display the numbers as clearly as the dfrac.

bbox, bounding box
int integral
^ to the power of, this is also popular on calculators
_ subscript, so the underline means drop this to low... almost under

As you can see, both the text commands and the character ones are largely based on what they do. It is almost a short nad version of describing what needs to be done.

Here is a long list of commands:
http://www.onemathematicalcat.org/MathJaxDocumentation/TeXSyntax.htm

Just sample a few sections and you will see what I mean.

Mostly, you learn \(\LaTeX\) as you use it. If you type in it more, you remember it more. Each time you look something up, the chance is that you will store it for the next time and not need to look it up then.

There are also some visual editors for the math part that can help with lookups:
http://www.codecogs.com/eqneditor

Answer 12

\(\Huge\it\color{#0000FF}{e.mccormick~is~right}\)

Answer 13

t h an k y o u

Answer 14

Have fun, and next you need to learn the power of negative space.

\(\Large \textbf{Negative} \hspace{-1 em}\color{red}{\textbf{Space}}\)

Answer 15

\large\textbf{Negative}\space{-2 em}\color{red}{\textbf{Space}}
what am i doing wrONG

Answer 16

The `\(` and `\)` are used to open and close an inline piece of \(\LaTeX\) code. The `\[` and `\]` are used to open and close a block of latex code.

Inline means it happens inside that line, like \(\tfrac{a}{b}\) that fraction I just did with `\(\tfrac{a}{b}\)`.

Block means it happens as a separated paragraph, like \[\tfrac{a}{b}\] that fraction I just did with `\[\tfrac{a}{b}\]`.

Now, I'll screen shot this to show the preview and what is typed to help make this more clear.

In this screen shot you will see that what I tyoed is all on one line in both cases, but how it shows up in the preview and posting is as inline and separated block. All because I used ( ) on one and [ ] on the other.

You MUST you these or the web site will not know you want it to start using MathJax. If you really get into it, there are other triggers and ways to evade them, but for now all you really need to remeber is you must use the `\( code to parse \)` or `\[ code to parse \]` formats.