Copying a symbol from latexhelp is extremly annoying

[Addez123]

1. Go to: https://www.physicsforums.com/help/latexhelp/
WITHOUT being logged in.

2. Find a symbol you wish to use, such as \Psi

3. Then copy it and paste it into your equation

4. Voila! You ruined your entire document with this monstrocity

\phi

Reference: https://www.physicsforums.com/help/latexhelp/

 

[BvU]

$\Psi$ seems to work fine ?

But what can you do without being logged in ?$\$

 

[topsquark]

1. Go to: https://www.physicsforums.com/help/latexhelp/
WITHOUT being logged in.

2. Find a symbol you wish to use, such as \Psi

3. Then copy it and paste it into your equation

4. Voila! You ruined your entire document with this monstrocity

Two options:
1) Learn the Greek alphabet. (The simplest solution, but perhaps a little time consuming.)

2) Try this site. (A more practical option.) You can write your code and copy and paste from there.

-Dan

 

[jack action]

Yeah, I hate websites that do this. (Sorry @Greg Bernhardt , I do!)

Instead of adding a reference as they do here, some websites even block copying entirely, so you have to open the Developer Tools of your browser to copy, directly from the HTML, the text you want. Some even block the right-click as well, so you have to go into the browser menu to open the Developer Tools.

The worst I have seen was one that sent images as an assembled puzzle. The images you saw were in reality 9 smaller images stitched together such that when you click on it and try to save it, you were only saving part of the image. Guess what? A Print Screen still does the trick to copy the image!

In the end, webmasters can never control the user's browsers, you can just annoy them (and not only the ones that you want to annoy). Once you sent the info to your users, they have it and can do whatever they want with it.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Learn the Greek alphabet. (The simplest solution, but perhaps a little time consuming.)

Keeping in mind that I am neither going for nor against the OP, how will one read out equations or remember them without knowing what Greek letter it is? It is not really possible to proceed in physics without knowing the Greek alphabet. Therefore, by the time one is using $\LaTeX$, it is expected that they will know the Greek alphabet.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

The equations are built with CSS. Your browser copy and paste don't work like that. Instead, right-click the equation and choose "show math as" or "copy to clipboard".

 

[anorlunda]

The equations are built with CSS. Your browser copy and paste don't work like that. Instead, right-click the equation and choose "show math as" or "copy to clipboard".

Oh. Thanks Greg. I never knew you could do "show math as".

 

[jack action]

The equations are built with CSS. Your browser copy and paste don't work like that. Instead, right-click the equation and choose "show math as" or "copy to clipboard".

I think what the OP refers to is the added sentence "Reference: https://www.physicsforums.com/help/latexhelp/" to anything you copy on the website (when you are not logged in). Let me copy the first sentence of your post and paste it into the following quote:

The equations are built with CSS.

Now I open this same thread in another browser where I'm not logged in PF and copy the same sentence and paste it in the following quote:

The equations are built with CSS.

Reference: https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...lp-is-extremly-annoying.1049669/#post-6851011

Imagine when you only want to copy the text \Phi and paste it into a latex equation with this added [annoying] notice.

 

[Mark44]

Find a symbol you wish to use, such as \Psi

\phi

I too would be very annoyed if I copied the LaTeX for ##\Psi## ($\Psi$), but got this one, ##\phi## ($\phi$), instead.