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I'm trying to use LaTeX on my blog, but I could not figure out how. Has anyone done it before? Any feedback or related information would be greatly appreciated.

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    You might want to give us more detail, for example whether you are using a hosted blog, the blog software and version, etc. – Joseph Wright♦ Mar 19 '11 at 9:41
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    @Joseph: Presumably blogspot. – TH. Mar 19 '11 at 9:49
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    Very much related: LaTeX in Blogger (possible duplicate?). – Hendrik Vogt Mar 19 '11 at 12:21
  • @Hendrik: they are very much related, but the related question hasn't been marked as answered. Now that mathjax has a CDN, the top-voted answer in the related question is outdated (and was incomplete anyway). So if Chan is successful with this, I the older question should be closed as a duplicate of this one. – Matthew Leingang Mar 19 '11 at 13:33
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    @Jasper: Because it was in the title of the question. – TH. Jun 18 '11 at 8:20
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I would say use MathJax. It's a AJAX engine for LaTeX syntax that now is distributed by a CDN so you don't have to upload a single file to your blogspot account.

To enable MathJax, just drop in

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/2.7.1/latest/MathJax.js">
MathJax.Hub.Config({
 extensions: ["tex2jax.js","TeX/AMSmath.js","TeX/AMSsymbols.js"],
 jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"],
 tex2jax: {
     inlineMath: [ ['$','$'], ["\\(","\\)"] ],
     displayMath: [ ['$$','$$'], ["\\[","\\]"] ],
 },
 "HTML-CSS": { availableFonts: ["TeX"] }
});
</script>

after the header (<head>) in the Blogger template (Design→Edit HTML→Edit Template).

Googling "install mathjax blogspot" led me to a page on the Web Applications StackExchange: MathJax on Blogger.

See the MathJax pages for more information about configuring and using it.

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  • @Chan: did you end up doing it this way? Did it work? If so, you can click the green check and we'll merge the older question into this one. – Matthew Leingang Mar 22 '11 at 11:41
  • This helped me get $\LaTeX$ on my blog, thank you. What more, the same trick works for comments as well, provided they appear on the same page as the post! – gphilip May 17 '11 at 2:37
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    The page of instruction pointed is now unavailable: "El blog se ha eliminado. Lo sentimos, el blog de mnnttl.blogspot.com se ha eliminado. Esta dirección no está disponible para blogs nuevos." – Jeremy Jul 6 '11 at 13:22
  • @Jeremy: updated the link. There's now a page on StackExchange to refer to. – Matthew Leingang Dec 17 '12 at 17:16
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    @OLSAY: That's a question to ask the MathJax folks. – Matthew Leingang Jun 16 '15 at 15:11

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