CUNY Academic Commons

User Chris McCarthy writes:

I'm using my commons site for mathematics (courses I teach, conference sessions I organize).

The plug in "WP Latex" doesn't work well.

Sometimes, it will parse my latex and produce good output, other times I will get the "formula does not parse" error, even though the latex syntax is correct, short, and doesn't require any packages. I'm very good with latex and this is driving me crazy.

Here is an example of what works:

[latex] S_1 = \{ H, T \} [/latex]
Here is an example of doesn't work:

[latex] |S_3| = |S_1| \times |S_2| = 2 \times 4 = 8 [/latex]
The syntax is correct (I've tested it). So, I don't know what to do.

I'm very careful and I've done this over and over. About 1/4 of the time, the latex doesn't work and I can't figure out what is wrong with it, since it compiles on my desktop.

Can you make another latex plug in available, one that works better?

Or figure out an alternative way to get math equations into the webpage?

Maybe by uploading a webpage with math created off line... anything! Thanks.
Thanks!