I’m a math teacher, and would like to create a good website that has homework assignments and lesson tutorials. Is there a good software package that I can author equations and use them in web sites (short of taking screen shots of Microsoft Word Equation Editor equations)?
heres a discussion of the problem and several solutions. http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/math/ And yes taking screen shot images and cutting out the equation from the graphic is not a bad answer.
My own weblog, The Unapologetic Mathematician, is hosted on WordPress for free, and it supports embedded LaTeX.
That’s interesting. LaTeX is something I want to learn, since I’m moving into a field that will involve more math that I’ve used in quite a while, but I presume WordPress uses some server technology that handles the embedded LaTeX code? I couldn’t just slam it into a webpage hosted on a generic webserver and expect browsers to understand it?
(PS: cool blog. 
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When the parser that translates what I write into actual code for the page, it turns the expression
latex \bullet\rightleftarrows\bullet
into the image tag
<img src=‘http://l.wordpress.com/latex.php?latex=\bullet\rightleftarrows\bullet&bg=e6e6e6&fg=000000&s=0’ alt=‘\bullet\rightleftarrows\bullet’ title=‘\bullet\rightleftarrows\bullet’ class=‘latex’ />
That is, it passes what I type to a php script which outputs an image as source for the tag. I’m not sure what software they use, but it might be possible to find a similar script elsewhere. If nothing else, you might look for a program that will take a bit of LaTeX and spit out an image you could manually post and link to.
I think so. I’m just hoping people on hiring committees do too. 