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[mailto:lon-capa-users-boun...@mail.lon-capa.org] On Behalf Of Damien Guillaume
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 3:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] A
Thanks Damien! That is very helpful. Is there an easy way to display the large numbers with
commas (e.g., 32000 -> 32,000)? I tried a couple of different format commands using
",0f", but neither worked. Also, is there a good reference out there to help
novices like me with the syntax for
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Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] Algebra Expression Rendering in LON-CAPA
Hi,
Ah, okay, it’s inside Perl double quotes! Sorry, I did not catch that. In Perl,
“\” is the escape character, so you’ll need “\\” - an escaped backslash.
Apologies, I didn’t mak
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[korte...@msu.edu]
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 11:15 AM
To: Discussion list for LON-CAPA users
Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] Algebra Expression Rendering in LON-CAPA
Hi,
Ah, okay, it’s inside Perl double quotes! Sorry, I did not catch that. In Perl
pa-users-boun...@mail.lon-capa.org] On Behalf Of Gerd Kortemeyer
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 10:39 AM
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> Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] Algebra Expression Rendering in LON-CAPA
>
> Hi,
>
> I
Hi,
It’s \sum
as in
\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}
- Gerd.
> On Jan 13, 2017, at 10:29 AM, Harding, Gene L wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am having trouble rendering an algebraic expression with a summation sign
> (capital Sigma). I want an expression that looks like this, using