\color{navy}{\text {Okay, this looks like an easier way to do it}} \\
\color{RoyalBlue}{\text {There are a lot of named colors}} \\
\color{purple}{\text {Dozens of them}} \\
\color{ForestGreen}{\text {And if you use the text command, then it handles spaces correctly}} \\
Here’s a list of colors.
A future version will have more support for messing with the fonts. You can also switch around the Math Renderer from the menu and experience different results from some of the settings.
Weird. I noticed when someone responded to one of my posts that the MathJax dollar signs seemed to have disappeared when quoted, so I wanted to test it here. I highlighted your entire post and clicked quote and it seems to have done the same thing. Bye bye colors.
It does seem to strip out the dollar signs when you select text and quote, but it doesn’t if you reply to a post and then click the speech bubble in the edit box to quote the whole post.
But it’s not a big deal. You can always add back the dollar signs manually.
Besides \color{red}{\textsf{colored text }} you can also use boxes for background colors.
\fcolorbox{green}{Goldenrod}{Text in a box}
\large\color{white}\fcolorbox{white}{NavyBlue}{Large white text with blue background 🌠}
I assume this is a manifestation of the well-known bug that prevents formatted text like italic and bold from being quoted correctly (extra spaces are inserted).
No, but the actual bug is in how the “highlight text and click quote” function works. It seems it just takes what text is selected and parses it, rather than find it in the post and then copying the markup.
The latter would eliminate this problem, though I understand it would be more difficult to implement.
Even for simple math it’s formatted much more beautifully than what’s otherwise possible. x^3 \over 3! just looks better than x3/3!, and is easier to type, too.