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dkretz gave praise in Socrata on June 02, 2009 22:58:

Customer Support link responsiveness
Chris Metcalf was able to get the link to getsatisfaction working for me promptly. (This is also a test for a new entry.)
dkretz replied on June 02, 2009 22:55 to the idea "Support for mathematical equations in Socrata" in Socrata:

Hmmm... The interface seems to be working. The textarea did something funny with my href - try again -

There's a new markup technology that purports to support embeddable LaTeX, and has some other goodness characteristics, named reStructuredText

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dkretz replied on June 02, 2009 22:53 to the idea "Support for mathematical equations in Socrata" in Socrata:

I've had some recent experience that may be of interest. The general category I believe is "blog-type markup", and it applies generally to applications ranging from blogs and socrata to wikipedia (and wikis generally). LaTeX currently has the unfortunate characteristic that it's typically not an embeddable markup - you need to do the entire document. But there's some signs of change.

There's a new markup technology that purports to support embeddable LaTeX, and has some other goodness characteristics, named reStructuredText that may be worth a look.

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