A LaTeX environment is one of the following:. Text inside a float environment is "floated" according to its placement, an optional parameter. The standard report and article classes use the default placement [tbp].

TeX is written by a mathematician, and has always contained good support for formatting mathematical text. AUCTeX supports this tradition, by offering a special minor mode for entering text with many mathematical symbols. This is a minor mode rebinding the key LaTeX-math-abbrev-prefix to allow easy typing of mathematical symbols.

The tex2jax preprocessor can be configured to look for whatever markers you want to use for your math delimiters. See the tex2jax configuration options section for details on how to customize the action of tex2jax. The TeX input processor has few configuration options see the TeX options section for detailsbut it can also be customized through the use of extensions that define additional functionality see the TeX and LaTeX extensions below.

The first thing to remember is that LaTeX works in two modes text mode and math mode. Enter text must be in text mode and writing mathematical in math mode. This is an example of combination of sizes in math mode :.

By using our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Cookie PolicyPrivacy Policyand our Terms of Service. This is a contrived example, but pretend we are actually inside a long align environment block They seem to produce equivalent output, but I'm not sure which is the "correct" one.

The symbols are normally very simple and easy to understand. Forcing non-italic captions Up: Miscellaneous Latex syntax Previous: Defining and using colors How do I insert the symbol for 'n choose x'? Class 2 Bin symbols: binary operator "conjunction" Edit.

There is a similar Support Tablesorted alphabetically, that lists both supported and un-supported functions. Distance can be written with any of the KaTeX units. The following "raw HTML" features are potentially dangerous for untrusted inputs, so they are disabled by default, and attempting to use them produces the command names in red which you can configure via the errorColor option.

LaTeX uses a special math mode to display mathematics. Again we enter each row on a new line, separate entries using an ampersand and separate rows using a double backslash. This will render the LaTeX expression.

This section will cover how to typeset mathematics. It will also cover how to handle complicated equations and multiple equation environments. For many people the most useful part of LaTeX is the ability to typeset complex mathematical formulas.

MediaWiki renders mathematical equations using a combination of html markup and a variant of LaTeX. Only a limited part of the full TeX language is supported; see below for details. The older PNG images can be set via user preferences. Client side MathJax is no longer supported.