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I see that you need Greek letters for some of your articles. Create them like this: <math>\alpha</math> or <math>\beta</math>. To see how I did that, do "view source" or "edit". Good luck. [[User:SaraT|SaraT]] 10:51, 31 May 2009 (EDT)
I see that you need Greek letters for some of your articles. Create them like this: <math>\alpha</math> or <math>\beta</math>. To see how I did that, do "view source" or "edit". Good luck. [[User:SaraT|SaraT]] 10:51, 31 May 2009 (EDT)
:I received an email about your Greek letter question from another user, and thought I would repost the advice that I was given when I originally asked for help with creating mathematical symbols:
:"For most simple things (e.g. numbers, subscripts, superscripts), you don't need math markup, just regular HTML (there are buttons for these in the edit bar). For more complicated things, or things like Greek letters, you need to enter math mode using <math> and exit it using </math>. Many LaTeX commands are straightforward to guess: Greek letters are \nameofletter, for example \kappa, \delta, or \Delta, which give κ,δ,orΔ. The commands are case sensitive as you can see. Other things you might want are:
:"\frac{num}{denom} which yields .
_ is subscript, ^ is superscript, and by default they only take one thing as argument, so if you want multiple numbers, use {} to denote the scope. Compare: \sigma_12 with \sigma_{12}: σ12 versus σ12.
\lim_{x\to \infty} f(x) yields
Curly braces {} are used to denote the argument of a command."
:Hope this helps. --[[User:Economist|Economist]] 17:27, 1 June 2009 (EDT)