Here’s how to change the size of a LaTeX equation in WordPress
First of all, here’s how you write an equation in LaTeX. Directly in your wordpress blog editor, under the “Text” tab, simply type in the following…
$latex x^2$
This will give you an equation that looks like this:
As it looks small and ugly, you might ask yourself, “self, how can I make the latex equation larger in my WordPress blog?”.
If you go to the docs you’ll probably type in something like this (where you replace X by some number, e.g., X=4).
$latex \LaTeX&s=4$
Unfortunately, you will get an ugly yellow and red error saying, “Formula does not parse”.
Gah! So how do I get the formula to parse? Simple, instead of using the ampersand sign directly, you have to type in & like this,
$latex \LaTeX&s=4$
To give you this,
Note that the \huge option does not seem to work. Also note that for some reason there can not be a space between the \LaTeX and the &, but this spacing doesn’t seem to matter for other equations.
Let’s try our original equation… Type in
$latex x^2 &s=4$
To show,
