TeX Support

Posted by admin on May 5, 2009 under News | 5 Comments to Read

Hey everyone,

The website can now offer Tex support through combination of our image card system and MimeTeX*. To make a math card, create a new blank image card, and instead of uploading an image, type [TEX] (case sensitive) followed by the the TeX code. For Example [TEX]a^2+b^2=c^2. StudyDroid will run the TeX script through MimeTeX and make an image card of the formula.

This feature is currently in beta and might be buggy. So please post any questions or comments you have.

LaTeX is a special formatting language for formatting math formulas and other hard to recreate symbols. For more information on LaTeX check out http://www.latex-project.org/or the wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX

*MimeTeX is a cgi script version of LaTeX. There are some minor differences, but the average user shouldn’t notice any difference on simple TeX. for more information on MimeTeX check out http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html

tom said,

Does Studydroid work with Cupcake???
varx said,

As Far as I know, the new update shouldn’t effect StudyDroid. It should continue to work the same way. As with any new update though, there is a possibly for new error. Please report any crashes or strange behavior on the forums.

-varx
DaveH said,

I’m using StudyDroid with the HTC Magic, and it seems to work just fine. I’m really pleased with it.
Jose said,

Studydroid seems to crash frequently with cupcake for me, but it is still usable
admin said,

Yeah, that’s been happening a lot lately with my g1 and applications that use the SQL db on the phone. Try uninstalling and then reinstalling it. That fixed it for me.