[ale] latex math question

Jim Philips jcphil at mindspring.com
Wed Mar 17 06:18:11 EST 2004


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On Wednesday 17 March 2004 12:34 am, Matthew Macumber wrote:
> On March 16, 2004 10:50 pm, kenn at pcintelligent.com wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am new to latex but I have been using it to do some math stuff and
> > running it through itex2mml so I can put my formulas and stuff on the
> > web. It's not that hard but I am having a bit of trouble figuring out how
> > to put the a and b on a definate integral. I have tried a bunch of
> > things.. nothing seems to be right and I can't seem to locate docs on
> > this. *Shrug* Maybe I just am over looking them?
> >
> > Anyone know how to do this? Or can you point in the right direction?
> >
> > Thanks - Ken
> >
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> The limits on a definite integral are done using superscript and subscript
> operators. Something like this:
>
> \int_a^b f(x)dx
>
> http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/ is a great LaTeX reference.

Or you can just use Lyx, which gives you a dialog box with buttons for adding 
these things. It makes doing math in LaTex a breeze.
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