Quickly Accessible MathJax Help

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I recently had the problem of encoding big brackets in a formula in my question "Functions that Calculate their $L_p$ Norm" and, I could find nothing under "How to Format > MathJax equations", as the link brought up LaTex encodings which didn't work for MathJax.

As I am not a MathJax wizzard, I was happy to see, that meanwhile someone jumped in and fixed the respective formula with "\Big(" and "\Big)" which I had not seen.

Based on that "experience" I would like to know, why the formatting help for formulas doesn't link to something that is dedicated to MathJax.
Links to good (i.e. compact and well-structured) online-resources would also be a great help.

Could you please describe the part of the documentation your refer to more precisely. I am not sure what you mean. Meanwhile, see meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/5020/… — user9072, Commented Jul 6, 2014 at 11:18
@quid the link I used, was math.harvard.edu/texman/node21.html#SECTION00084000000000000000 wich I reached via the orange "MathJax Help" link, that appears, when editing a question; of course most things also work in MathJax, but not all. I'd suggest, the MathJax Help would link to the stackexchange question, you pointed me to. — Manfred Weis, Commented Jul 6, 2014 at 11:37
Thanks for the clarification. I now found it in the grey box to the right. I agree that this seems a bit too general a link. — user9072, Commented Jul 6, 2014 at 13:23
just found a quite helpful link calculatorium.com/mathjax-quick-start-tutorial — Manfred Weis, Commented Jul 25, 2014 at 12:36
Some links are collected in this answer: How does one type mathematical formulas on this site? I don't think I any one of them is optimal, but let's hope that a few users will join in and other some additional useful links. (Then everybody can choose the one which seems most useful for them.) — Martin Sleziak, Commented Jun 13, 2018 at 5:53
It's actually possible for CMs to update the URL that the "MathJax help" link (at the bottom of the LaTeX section of the /editing-help page) points to. See this post on MSE for more info about updating the "MathJax help" link. — V2Blast, Commented Mar 25, 2023 at 4:57

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-13 12:19:34Z

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On math.stackexchange.com, the "What topics can I ask about here" page in the Help Center links directly to a meta.math.SE post with a MathJax tutorial as well as some other useful links.

We might be able to steal it, or link to it.

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answered Jul 31, 2014 at 14:49

Nate Eldredge

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$\begingroup$ I have mentioned this in the comments under the question, but I will point out it also here that now there is a post with "intro to MathJax" also on this site: How does one type mathematical formulas on this site? I'd say that probably the tutorial on Mathematics Meta is probably not optimal, being too long for a person who encounters TeX syntax for the first time. See also the comments under this answer: FAQ on typesetting of formulae hard to find $\endgroup$
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Commented Jul 22, 2018 at 8:16

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