# MathJax Support has been enabled for RPG.se

MathJax support has been added to RPG.se. We should probably write up a guide on Meta for using it, but in the short version is that you can use $$ to format the … part using LaTeX's mathematics markup. In the meantime there is this MathJax Guide as a reference.

# Original post:

The nature of tabletops overlaps a lot with statistics to the point where being able to simply write minor mathematical expressions would be beneficial to conveying simple mathematical explanations. For example, Math.SE has a plugin that allows for the direct in-line use of LaTeX math formatting within answer and comment texts, which they use to much success.

Example Answer that could have benefited from LaTeX markup

Here we see a very beefy post about determining if a die is fair. This kind of post, though mathematically heavy, could be of importance to a vast portion of the RPG.SE audience. The construction of simple superscript and subscripts in LaTeX require only ^ and _. Where in RPG.SE currently, there is a need to apply html tags and italic markup to make expressions appear in math format proper, and even then it's difficult to get right.