Dear Morris,

You've raised a number of good points and I'm disappointed we managed to mess up the editor for you.

You are right on all fronts and I'll bare in mind your thoughts about the common (or example) equations buttons. This should now be fixed, please let me know immediately if it isn't and i'll remove it permanently. Its entirely my fault, since I've been excited to push out the new version with an enlarged selection of button panels.

Now this project has grown in popularity we should (as you illustrate) have alpha, then beta version before releasing a final version. We should also allow people to go back in time to older renditions. For all of these reasons, we're moving the whole hosting of the editor to latex.codecogs.com. Over the coming weeks we'll design this site as a dedicated location for the editor and in turn put in more detailed (multipage) instructions on how to set it up and install it, etc, etc.

As for the common equations. The selection within these is very basic. I'm actually looking for suggestions. i.e. what equations do you reasonably often type?. What equations have you found structurally very hard to create? The chemistry example equations are perhaps the best examples of equations forms that weren't obvious when I needed them.

The rational for having them at all, is to help people construct more unusual and complex equations - i.e. in cases where the structure of the LaTeX is critical to getting what you need.

I think if enough other people find these buttons annoying (and you aren't the first); then we can pull them, and have as you suggest a demonstration page into which anyone can submit examples. I could also make them more discrete, i.e. just have written initially 'examples', which when pressed displays these buttons. There is very little overhead, as all the images are loaded dynamically when needed - so you wouldn't notice a decrease in performance.

Or as you say; just drop all this into a dedicated common equations/examples page, which anyone can submit equations into.

In the mean time; I promise not to release any new versions without thorough testing!

Thanks for your comments, Will.