# Test thread — to test things out. Do not lock! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 27, 2021, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736 "2021-12-27T18:05:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/141 "2022-08-19T17:42:02Z")
f\_k = \mu\_kN $f\_k = \mu\_kN$ f\_s \le \mu\_sN $f\_s \le \mu\_sN$ \mu\_s $\mu\_s$ \mu\_k $\mu\_k$ ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/142 "2022-08-19T17:47:11Z")
E = mc^2 freq = c / \lambda WOW! Cool!! Tripler Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/143 "2022-08-22T22:38:13Z")
Yeah I saw @Chronos post those elsewhere so I tried it here. Pretty cool! Sorry for the delayed reply @Tripler . ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/144 "2022-08-23T12:27:43Z")
It’s all good. Is this what they mean when they say “using _Latex_” or is this something else? Tripler I can look up how-to guides and post 'em here. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/145 "2022-08-29T08:20:32Z")
Actually I’m not sure. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/146 "2022-08-29T08:53:39Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > Is this what they mean when they say “using _Latex_” or is this something else? Basically, yes. Imagine that you are working on some sort of scientific paper, but this is back in the early 1980s and you are typing your paper into a text-based terminal. You need some way to write mathematical formulas, so someone takes a typesetting markup language called Tex and adds math stuff to it. They name it LaTeX. This becomes very popular in academia because how else are you going to write math formulas on a computer terminal? So years later, lots of folks use LaTex but there’s no easy way to put it on a web page. That’s when some folks create a JavaScript library called MathJax, which supports LaTeX along with some other similar things (MathML and ASCIIMath). And that’s what we use here. We have the MathJax plugin for Discourse installed. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/147 "2022-08-29T13:51:09Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > Basically, yes. Thank you!! In my über-nerd way, I kind of look forward to goofing around with this feature! Tripler But not at work. That’s for _ **serious** _ math. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/148 "2022-08-29T16:31:29Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > E = mc^2 > > freq = c / \lambda > > WOW! Cool!! > > Tripler > Thank you! The superscript and subscript tags, sup and sub, work also: `33 ft/sec2` gives you 33 ft/sec2 Ge and Gm ---
**Author:** ![Topologist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/topologist/32/3208_2.png) [@Topologist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Topologist)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/149 "2022-08-29T17:07:23Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > Imagine that you are working on some sort of scientific paper, but this is back in the early 1980s and you are typing your paper into a text-based terminal. You need some way to write mathematical formulas, so someone takes a typesetting markup language called Tex and adds math stuff to it. They name it LaTeX. This becomes very popular in academia because how else are you going to write math formulas on a computer terminal? Just nitpicking: TeX was designed by Knuth from the start to typeset math. (I used plain TeX to typeset my thesis in 1985.) It also had the ability to define macros and do some programming. Lamport then designed a set of macros to improve on a number of things, particularly better separating the presentation (what things look like) and content (how things are organized and what they mean conceptualy) aspects. That set of macros became LaTeX. Most of what MathJax implements was already present in the original TeX. But LaTeX became so popular that most users now probably aren’t aware of the underlying plain TeX anymore. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2022, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/150 "2022-08-29T17:39:18Z")
> [@Topologist](#): > > TeX was designed by Knuth from the start to typeset math I wasn’t aware of that. I thought TeX was just a general typesetter. Thanks for the correction! ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/151 "2022-09-12T00:26:21Z")
Test to see if images can be used instead of text in a poll. _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/151))_ ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/152 "2022-09-12T00:32:21Z")
Testing a canned reply use code: \text{}{\color{blue}\mathbf{GIANTS}} ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/153 "2022-09-12T00:33:26Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > Test to see if images can be used instead of text in a poll. > > _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/153))_ Hmmm, perhaps this? _Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/153))_ Image A — [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/zZk3h7m.jpeg "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/zZk3h7m) Image B — [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/w5WPwNH.png "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/w5WPwNH) ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/154 "2022-09-12T02:25:24Z")
Not sure what you did - just a series of labeled choices followed by their images. Okay, but not ideal. Would be better to have the tick boxes and the images, one next to each box. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/155 "2022-09-12T03:59:29Z")
_Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/155))_ ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/156 "2022-09-12T07:52:03Z")
And there we have it!! ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/157 "2022-09-12T19:33:04Z")
test of map display https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=46,-91.5&z=17&output=embed&dg=ntvb&q=46%C2%B000%2700.0%22N%2B91%C2%B030%2700.0%22W ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/158 "2022-09-12T19:35:19Z")
I see Hayward, Wisconsin, and it zooms and scrolls just fine. Neat! ETA: Also street view works fine. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/159 "2022-09-12T20:13:09Z")
Yes it looks really good. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736/160 "2022-09-12T20:29:14Z")
I was just seeing if the map would show up in the thread. No special reason for choosing that town. But the map doesn’t show up in the preview, so I wasn’t sure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-thread-to-test-things-out-do-not-lock/956736.md?page=9)