Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam. Quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident. Sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Double spaces:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam. Quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident. Sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Believe me, I prefer to use, and to see, double spaces after periods. My documents, emails, and Dope posts are all written that way. It’s annoying to me that the HTML standard was written as it was. But I’m not willing to keystroke non-breaking space(s) at the end of every sentence to fight that standard.
IOW, “period space space” is a very nice piece of muscle memory well-honed over 50 years of typing / keyboarding. “Period space ampersand n b s p semi-colon”? Not so much.
YMMV of course. But that’s how I roll on this one.
What device and browser are you using? The “helpful formatting” is often a matter of your cut-and-paste operation bringing along a lot of data, such as oage title, that you can’t see, but the Discourse edit box can.
I’m on my phone or I’d write you a treatise on URLs in Discourse. Maybe this afternoon.
What you typed was perfectly well-formed MathML. What you missed was that to activate the MathML interpreter here in Discourse, you need to enclose the entire MathML blob in "$"s. Once I did that for each paragraph, your text looks like the above.
You can use a single pair of "$"s around multiple paragraphs but only if there are no blank lines between them. This next example has a single pair of "$"s around all 4 lines with no blank lines between. OTOH, MathML ignores embedded carriage returns, so the result is a big run-on.
\color{blue}\text{Test test test}
\color{crimson}\text{More test test test}
\color{green}\text{Still more test}
\color{grey}\text{And STILL more test}
Which is also why sometimes people get weird formatting in a paragraph with multiple “$”'s in it. To avoid triggering MathML mode just precede the “$” with a “\”.
FYI, this is my favorite MathML playground. It make it real easy to build whatever you’re trying to build with lots of useful feedback:
As to which colors, I suspect mathML will take any named HTML color and probably the various numeric or hex formats as well. See
Technical nitpick (the best kind of nitpick!): It’s not MathML but LaTeX format. MathML looks a lot more like HTML. If I remember correctly, behind the scenes MathJax is interpreting the LaTeX but it’s unlikely it’s turning it into MathML, as not enough browsers support it.
D’oh. You’re 100 right. Subsititute “LaTex” for “MathML” everywhere I wrote that word.
In my defense, if you look at the playground I cited, it does both MathML & LaTex. Depending on a rather subtle setting toggle at the top. On which toggle I misread which mode was selected and which was unselected. D’oh!
In your post I’m seeing a yellow box with “Undefined control sequence \color” in red text four times. I suspect that’s not what I should be seeing. (Firefox on Win 10.)
\color{DarkKhaki}\text{Test test test testarooney} \color{crimson}\text{More test test test-a-palooza} \color{DarkOrchid}\text{Holy mackerel I think i'm getting the hang of this . . . } \color{OliveDrab}\text{Huzzah! Learning has been achieved!!}
$\color{DarkKhaki}\text{Test test test testarooney}$
$\color{crimson}\text{More test test test-a-palooza}$
$\color{DarkOrchid}\text{Holy mackerel I think i'm getting the hang of this . . . }$
$\color{OliveDrab}\text{Huzzah! Learning has been achieved!!}$
It looks like the link to the color codes work for naming the colors too!
