LaTeX Help -> How to write in LaTeX and how to use LaTeX

stevem

Do not put text between dollar signs. Put maths only between dollar signs So you would write

**Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 2:05 pm

AwesomeToad

How do you do fractions like $x/y^2$ ? I tried frac{x}{y^2} but it didnt work.

**Posted:** Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:34 pm

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stevem

All commands in LaTeX start with a backslash, so a fraction command is \frac so you get $\frac{x}{y^2}$ . See LaTeX:Commands

**Posted:** Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:45 pm

walkingtaco

the document doesn't work for me... Sad

it says link is broken

**Posted:** Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:27 pm

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LaTeX:Commands is not broken and points to http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/LaTeX:Commands

**Posted:** Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:32 pm

schalk · New Member Offline Joined: 26 Jun 2009 Posts: 2

**Posted:** Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:57 pm

Falcon1 · Poincare Conjecture Offline Joined: 12 Jun 2009 Posts: 234

how do you get a fraction that isn't just something like: 2/3

**Posted:** Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:35 am

stevem

LaTeX:Commands#Fractions

**Posted:** Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:49 am

Falcon1 · Poincare Conjecture Offline Joined: 12 Jun 2009 Posts: 234

$\dfrac {2} {3}$ Got it thanks

**Posted:** Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:06 pm

dingo_bastard

Hi! I was wondering few things.

First: What kind of a forum is this: phpbb or vBulletin? It seems to be phpbb.

Now you may ask why am I asking this Mr. Green

Well I'm a moderator on my uni's forum and we have phpbb3 forum and we desperately need to implement LaTeX. If someone could point me in the right direction so I could say to my admis to implement it. The dolar sign convenction seems even better than [tex] or [latex] tags on other formus I've seen.

So if you could tell me where to get it and how to implement it (or some documents about it) I would really appreciate it!

Thanx in advance!!

**Posted:** Sat Oct 24, 2009 12:01 am

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stevem

This forum uses LatexRender and there's lots of discussion about it on the phpBB forum LaTeX support in phpBB3. Using dollar tags is covered in this post.
You will need LaTeX, ImageMagick and GhostScript installed on the server.

**Posted:** Sat Oct 24, 2009 12:53 am

dingo_bastard

Thanx for the info, I'll pass that to my admins!

**Posted:** Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:44 am

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