Enhancements to Walking Randomly

April 9th, 2009 | Categories: walking randomly | Tags:

I have been playing around behind the scenes and have added a few small enhancements to Walking Randomly to try and make it more useful to readers.

New Search Box

The first update is the addition of a search box near the top left hand side of the page.   With over 220 individual posts, I was starting to struggle to find my own content so heaven knows how difficult the typical reader might find it.  I find the new search functionality quite useful and I hope you do too.

Latex in the comments

I have been using mimetex to typeset Mathematical equations ever since I started this blog and it has always worked well for me.  However, the version of the mimetex plugin-in I was using didn’t allow typeset equations in the comments section of posts which made it difficult for readers to post equations.

Well, after a bit of googling and experimentation, I figured out how to get it to work in comments as well.  It turned out that the php script only needed one extra line of code!

So, if you would like to put an equation in a comment all you need to do is write your Latex inside the tags  [ /tex] (without the spaces).    So, to get [tex]  \light \int_0^1 x^2 you need to type [tex ] \light \int_0^1 x^2 [ /tex] but remember to remove the spaces from inside the [] tags.

That’s pretty much it.  After all they are only minor enhancements.

The FutureWhat do you want?

Feel free to let me know of anything else that you think I should do to improve things around here.  What do you like?  What don’t you like? What would you like to see more of?  Are there any topics you wish I would cover? I can’t promise that I’ll act on your suggestions but if you don’t ask you don’t get.

Thanks for reading and making blogging a worthwhile hobby for me.

  1. Mike Croucher
    April 9th, 2009 at 15:03
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    Equation test

    \reverse \light \int_0^1 \frac{x^2}{sin(x)}