Question

Hello! Whitemonsterbunny17 and I have started a team of people to help come up with, and design new LaTeX. Would you like to be a part of our team? If so, fill out this form. Thank you!

http://goo.gl/forms/ivxqmUKEmz

Answer 1

I am already a part of it, can I reapply? ;P

Answer 2

No.

Answer 3

Once you apply, please let me know either through this post or preferably through pm, so I can invite you to the group.

Answer 4

new LaTeX?

Answer 5

More complex is another way to say it.
We would use our combined skills to make groundbreaking feats using LaTeX.

Answer 6

Ok so complex application of the same LaTeX.

Answer 7

What is think tank what is designer?

Answer 8

The Think-Tankers, are the ones that come up with the ideas for the designers to create. Designers should be people that have intermediate to advanced LaTeX skills, so they know what is, and is not, possible.

Answer 9

Cool. I applied.

Answer 10

Great! I'll go check your application

Answer 11

What exactly do you mean more of an explanation?

Answer 12

I don't remember exactly what I wrote; I had two classes from then. Could you copypaste it and I might remember.

Answer 13

may i aooly

Answer 14

apply*

Answer 15

lol

Answer 16

oops I spoke from the wrong account ^_^

Answer 17

?

Answer 18

Of course you can! ^_^

Answer 19

yay xd

Answer 20

@GreenCat please check your email. You have been invited to the team using Slack

Answer 21

There's clear documentation on MathJax that describes everything possible (though OS restricted many functions). So I'm wondering what is there to come up with? Something actually useful? Or just stuff for aesthetic purposes?
I explored and practiced mathjax on OS for years but eventually quit because there was nothing left to discover that would actually be useful so it became boring.

It would make more sense if you meant the actual full fledged \(\LaTeX\) which has endless possibilities (instead of the simplified mathjax version which OS uses). If this is the case, I have said nothing :P

Not trying to discourage anyone by the way! just wondering :)

Answer 22

First off, now* and second, we are currently building the team, there are no assignments yet.

Answer 23

so you're reinventing latex?

Answer 24

No, we aren't reinventing LaTeX.

Answer 25

I'm okay at latex

Answer 26

I see a few problems.

We do not need more complex \(\LaTeX\) on the site. What is needed is simpler stuff. Clean, easy ways to do things that do not cause any lag for the average user. This requires less special characters, less colors, and so on and so forth. Not more.

Doing \(\LaTeX\) for artistic purposes really does not need a team. It is just as easy to get comments from random people.

Organized tutoring in \(\LaTeX\) serves no point at all. It is a tutoring web site and anyone who knows can add in to a tutoring session without being on any sort of a team.

And, as Thom pointed out, MathJax has very little to do with \(\LaTeX\). It is like the bumper car version of driving. It takes no time at all to get started, the rules of the road barely apply, and crashing into issues is expected. If you are not going to really look at \(\LaTeX\) with attached PDFs of the results and .tex files of the base code, you are not getting out of the limited, toy version that is intended to add math to web sites.

That really is why MathJax breaks down so easy. It is designed to make presentations of single calculations at a time or small sets of them. It was never intended to be artistic, so when you add in tons of boxes, colors, characters, etc. it blows up the memory load on the client and causes things to go poorly for the people viewing it... especially on school computers that are generally older.

Answer 27

One suggestion by @k_lynn has been to make diagrams,. You can see the usefulness of this but the dangers of implementation (like lag).

Answer 28

I thought you could make some simple boxes, with some explanations and maybe some colour in the words that could use some standing out.

Answer 29

To really use \(\LaTeX\) properly for diagrams would take PGF and TikZ. That would mean rendering the results to something else. Personally, I think that would work fine. There are PDF versions of that on a number of sites, but I think something closer to the image editor where the end result comes out as a PNG or SVG would be useful. Then the code to make it could be stored as metadata which would allow for referencing it and doing edits.

Answer 30

Here, this is what adding that in would support:
http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/