how do you get special characters in posts

[Don Shepherd]

(12-21-2013 09:12 PM)Mark Hardman Wrote:  

(12-21-2013 08:43 PM)Don Shepherd Wrote:  In the old forum, I used links to a special page in the hpmuseum site to get special characters like divide, sigma, and square root. Since this new forum has more formatting options, is there a way to get these special characters without using those special codes now?

The new forum supports inserting \({LaTeX}\) expressions.

See the LaTeX? and Forum Thumbs Up! threads for more information.

Mark Hardman

Thanks Mark. I really don't want to learn a whole new language, I just want to be able to insert a sigma, square root, divide, or multiply symbol. Isn't there a quick and easy way to do that? Latex looks like it is used for complicated math expressions. My needs are much simpler.