maths online HTML formula tool |
This tool shall enable you to implement some important mathematical symbols in your web pages. In order to use it, you should have some basic knowledge on HTML. Besides characters that are provided by the standard font, there are two ways to generate special symbols:
- Using the Symbol font (for a problem emerging in the browsers Netscape 6+ and Mozilla, and how to resolve it, consult our page on optimal preferences).
- Using Unicode (for details see http://www.unicode.org/ and http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/#links). This is supported only by recent browsers.
The tool offers two palettes of special symbols which partially overlap,
and between which you may freely switch.
The first (called Symbol-Font) represents symbols not present in the standard font
by using the Symbol font.
The second (Unicode) uses Unicode in some cases (as far as supported by most recent
browsers), and the Symbol font in others. (One may expect
an increasing reservoir of such characters in future browser versions).
We use the following color code:
If you click at one of the red symbols (which are hyperlinks but not underlined in modern browsers), its HTML code is displayed in the tex field (left), and its representation by the web browser in the frame at the right. You may insert your own code into the text field, and thereafter click Refresh, in order to update the representation. Until you do this, a brown border around the text field warns you that code and representation might not be identical. Using the link Clear you may reset the content of both text field and representation frame. You may choose out of two possible working modes:
In case you do not find the symbol you are after among the ones displayed, you might find them in the two lists loaded by the links "standard font" und "symbol font", showing all possible symbols under these fonts. For further possibilities to bring mathematical formulae on the web see the page formulae and the web. Some technical remarks: When composing formulae or pieces of text (in principle you may generate a complete web page) you shoult keep the lengths of lines in the code not too long if you want to be able to read it later. Here one should consider that HTML tags may be broken into several lines (except after the opening "<"). Furthermore formulae should be designed such that they are not broken apart by the browser.
Example:
In order to prevent the formula from being broken apart by the browser,
the code may be replaced either by |