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I was looking for breakfast, when i finished it I saw that you answered the question before me, no problemo :) @Hamza Anushath, Glad you foubd your answer @Elijah L
i know now how to write the start and end signs of latex start: "\("; end: "\)" in text by using \ \ ( \ ) ( \ \ ) without spaces.
but how to write \ [ and \ ] as text without spaces?
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i just saw that your name is mentioned at the hidden text button in the latex guide. so this was no standard Latex feature? u invented it?
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since u are much better in finding infos than i am: do you know if brilliant has anchors on their pages?
i would prefer to link to a chapter directly instead of linking a page and say "look at 2.13 Buttons".
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You have comment anchors, but not anchors to specific points on notes. Those can only be done by the staff members. For comment anchors though, whenever you get a notification for a comment, and you click it, it will take you directly to the comment, use the link that is given for that page, and you can anchor that comment at any time :)
PS - Not really that good at this stuff, just got lucky that one time when i found it. Páll Márton is way better than me. He created the complete guide, found multiple things, like how to make cool shapes with latex, and how to make the unformatted brackets that you asked me for above. He created a line that is like a color pallet and has every color using latex, so its really him that can be considered the latex god of sorts lol
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Páll Márton has (no activity) behind his name. (since he answered at leat once, i dont know if this "no activity" was auto-created)
and you are also great in figuring out stuff.
before u told me how to do it, i tried several \ [ combos, but they always produced a linefeed.
ty for the hint with the comment anchors.
again: you have a great knowledge. i took me a while to at least find out that these in-side-links are called anchors but you seem to know that already.
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Does anyone know how to align equations?
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Please elaborate, if you want me to help you @Elijah L
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So for example:
x2+2x+1=9
(x+1)2=9
x+1=±3
The equal signs are not vertically aligned, is there a way to vertically align them?
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@Elijah L - Try using \ [ \ ] instead of \ ( \ )
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x2+2x+1=9
(x+1)2=9
x+1=±3
(me trying to use \ [ \ ])
The equations are still not vertically aligned. They're centered, but not vertically aligned.
\begin{align} 2x - 5y &= 8 \ 3x + 9y &= -12 \end{align}
2x−5y3x+9yha+m=8=−12=za
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@Elijah L, @Percy Jackson, is this what you guys were looking for?
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Yes, that's what I'm looking for, thank you!
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@Elijah L :D
You are welcomeI was looking for breakfast, when i finished it I saw that you answered the question before me, no problemo :) @Hamza Anushath, Glad you foubd your answer @Elijah L
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Thanks for offering to help as well!
ha + m = za LOL @Hamza Anushath
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I can give a pleasant LOL now and then @Percy Jackson
That is how I educate and entertain
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@Yajat Shamji hasn't seen my Latex-y solutions yet, or else the Latex Warden's mind would have been blown by now, in the BRILLIathon problems
@zico quintina - This is my Latex Discussion Note, you are welcome to ask all your doubts here :)
i know now how to write the start and end signs of latex start: "\("; end: "\)" in text by using \ \ ( \ ) ( \ \ ) without spaces.
but how to write \ [ and \ ] as text without spaces?
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\[\]
like this - \ \ ( \ ) [ \ \ ]
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\[\] you are great. tyvm
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and on this side: https://brilliant.org/discussions/thread/formatting-guide/ at "2.13 Buttons",
it says: "Idea from Percy Jackson"
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Wiki formatting - This wiki :)
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i would prefer to link to a chapter directly instead of linking a page and say "look at 2.13 Buttons".
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PS - Not really that good at this stuff, just got lucky that one time when i found it. Páll Márton is way better than me. He created the complete guide, found multiple things, like how to make cool shapes with latex, and how to make the unformatted brackets that you asked me for above. He created a line that is like a color pallet and has every color using latex, so its really him that can be considered the latex god of sorts lol
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and you are also great in figuring out stuff.
before u told me how to do it, i tried several \ [ combos, but they always produced a linefeed.
ty for the hint with the comment anchors.
again: you have a great knowledge. i took me a while to at least find out that these in-side-links are called anchors but you seem to know that already.
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Thanks for your compliments :)