Latex editor

To enter an equation in a is easy using the editor but there is a slight problem in a long text. It would be nice to leave the editor and return to the bit of the text on which you were working. At present you are returned to the start of the text and then have to scroll down. Not difficult but time consuming!

I wonder whether the editor should include dy/dx ( I could not get the editor to print these here) and d^2y/dx^2.

I feel the abbreviations xdot(dx/dt) and x2dots could be useful. I am not sure how to produce them

I'll have to try and replicate your editor positioning problem. In general the equation editor should appear as a popup window and paste text to the current cursor position. We have to do some tricks to make this work across all browsers.

As for dy/dx, this is really just a fraction, i.e.

\frac{dy}{dx}

gives

d^2y/dx^2 is only fractionally more complex

\frac{d^2y}{dx^2}

which gives,

Most of the commands on the current equation editor are focussed on helping us find the relevant latex command (i.e. \frac in the previous examples). What you're asking for is taking this one step further and including some preset equation forms. Another perhaps should be

Your scroll bug was arising only in FireFox, which is sadly why we didn't notice it at first.

We've corrected this, so it retains the current scroll position regardless of what is inserted.

Thanks for reporting this.