so typing latex is always cool , after the great community of mathlinks it’s time to remeber some of good-old type Latex here at wordpress .
There are many tutorials for learing latex but an easy way is also using mathurl.com , exporting your desirable math expression , exporting and a png and having the code too .
For more latex info see this nice document :
Click to access LaTeX_Manual_8_6.pdf
For linux users install it with the following commands :
$ sudo apt-get install texlive
(a basic subset of TeX Live’s functionality)
$ sudo apt-get install texlive-full
(all the packages in the LaTeX distribution )
$ sudo apt-get install gedit-latex-plugin
(usefull plugin to convert Gedit into a LaTeX editor )
LATEX ART
type this :
$ \setlength{\unitlength}{2mm}\begin{picture}(30, 20)\linethickness{0.075mm}\multiput(0, 0)(1, 0){31}{\line(0, 1){20}}\multiput(0, 0)(0, 1){21}{\line(1, 0){30}}\linethickness{0.15mm}\multiput(0, 0)(5, 0){7}{\line(0, 1){20}}\multiput(0, 0)(0, 5){5}{\line(1, 0){30}}\linethickness{0.3mm}\multiput(5, 0)(10, 0){3}{\line(0, 1){20}}\multiput(0, 5)(0, 10){2}{\line(1, 0){30}}\end{picture} $
and we get :
or draw a circle :