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		whye on Oct 17, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Math Overflow (A StackExchange site for Maths) This is a very neat idea, but the lack of support for latex, or any other way to create mathematical expressions is a bit of a letdown.

mr_dbr on Oct 17, 2009 | [–]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/516406/latex-equivalent-t... lists a bunch of possible options that would be rather trivial to integrate (either a modified version of Markdown, or the editor)

brg on Oct 17, 2009 | [–]

MathML is coming in webkit. It shouldn't be long before most browsers have support for that spec.

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