Comments on: Poll: What’s Broken?

By: Physicalist

Physicalist — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:10:40 +0000

Nisbet.

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:14:11 +0000

I haven't tried it myself, but I expect that LaTeXRender would work if you installed LaTeX under your /home directory, as long as you modified the appropriate pathnames within the code. Randall's solution may be easier for you.

By: Coin

Coin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:09:19 +0000

I think I would like to echo the desire for latex or mathml or something in blog comments. Most blogs don't have this (including some where heavy math discussion occurs). And I think a big part of the problem there is it's just so nontrivial to set it up-- personally I've not been able to get it working on my own site. (There are wordpress packages like the one you link, but they all require Latex to be separately installed; this can be problematic for people who don't personally control their hosting. If LatexReader can run off a /home - based installation of Latex though maybe I should give it a second look.)

By: The algy

The algy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:19:13 +0000

Oh. w00t! Now to drink coffee until
[tex]\frac{d\textrm{productivity}}{d\textrm{coffee}} = 0[/tex]

By: Blake Stacey

Blake Stacey — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:18:45 +0000

LaTeXRender already does that: just enclose the formula in [ tex ] and [ /tex ] tags (remove the spaces to see it work).

For example,

[tex]\partial_x x^2 = 2x.[/tex]

Still, alternative approaches are always appreciated! :-)

By: The algy

The algy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:20:57 +0000

Second link ("your blog") didn't show but it's this.

By: The algy

The algy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:12:33 +0000

The thing I can come closest to fixing: some folks could use a way to have LaTeX in your blog's comments rendered! ;)

By: RBH

RBH — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:34:10 +0000

Hm. I notice now that Wilkins’ listing goes beyond biology and is considerably broader than I remembered.

By: RBH

RBH — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:33:19 +0000

While it's not a compendium of papers from/for the professional literature, John Wilkins maintains a list of Basic Concepts posts in biology and related subdisciplines. Is that in the general area?

By: Steven Alleyn

Steven Alleyn — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:43:56 +0000

Something like ProQuest, EBSCOhost, jStor, etc, but public? Like a public journal catalogue? I like it. I’d be behind that.

By: Scott Hatfield, OM

Scott Hatfield, OM — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:37:37 +0000

I think it would be great if there was a common, agreed-upon set of general-reference papers on a host of topics that could be easily linked to to provide more details on specific points, a sort of on-line encyclopedia to important papers in the primary literature, all in one location, easily searchable as PDF files, but only editable by the science bloggers themselves. Outstanding bloggers make it their business to provide sources, but it would be great if more casual bloggers like myself could have more access to the literature. I envision something like the PNAS archives, only more user-friendly and addressing a wider number of papers, many of historical significance. Of course, this is not so much a fix as it would be an enhancement.