family

Thanks to my son John, my wife Emily has been dragged into the 21st century with her own blog. John used the free Joomla content management system to redesign her site.

Visit Emily at www.emilychase.com.

Emily still doesn’t have time for social networking, so if you want to network with us, you’ll have to friend Gene Barry Chase on Facebook.

I was hoping to be able to include mathematics in this blog, using LaTeX.  My son John found what I think is the easiest way to do that.  Visit the site http://www.codecogs.com/components/equationeditor/equationeditor.php

For example, if I type the following as the src field when inserting an image in the Wordpress editor

“http://latex.codecogs.com/gif.latex?\sin^2 x + \cos^2 x = 1″

then appears on the screen.

The site allows typing directly in LaTeX, watching the image to see that it’s right, and then cutting and pasting the URL for the image.  The site prompts for rarely-used LaTeX features that I’m likely to forget, now that I’m retired.  When I do mathematics here at Aftermath, I’ll put it on a separate page so that if you came here to read the promised philosophy, religion, sexuality, and (occasionally) politics, you won’t be distracted.  I’ll have to practice separate pages next.  Always something new to learn!