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equation labels and references in mmd?

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ACG

13 Jun, 2013 05:45 PM

I am quite proficient at LaTeX as I write math papers for a living! But, I am teaching myself (multi-)markdown and would like to know how to produce labeled equations and then reference the labels in a multimarkdown document (which I then convert to a latex document and compile via pdflatex). For example, how do I produce the following latex snippet:

\begin{equation}
\sin(x) = 1.
\label{eq:eqn1}
\end{equation}

We see in Equation \ref{eq:eqn1} that ...

Thanks,
ACG

1. 1 Posted by ACG on 13 Jun, 2013 06:47 PM

   

   I did find the following worked but I wondered if there was a more elegant solution:

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   Here's how to do equation references (which is a big deal to me in latex!). Here is the reference [](#eq:eqn1). There doesn't seem to be an automagic way of doing this except just commenting it out.
   <!-- \begin{equation}
   \sin(x) = 1.
   \label{eq:eqn1}
   \end{equation} -->
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   Thanks,
   ACG

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2. Support Staff 2 Posted by fletcher on 13 Jun, 2013 08:05 PM

   

   MMD 2 used ASCIIMathML to handle math, and then converted to LaTeX when appropriate. This syntax allowed me more control, and included a method to add labels to LaTeX equations.

   MMD 3/4 use straight LaTeX. So you use the standard LaTeX approaches to add labels, however you prefer.

   Your approach to referencing those equations above is correct ([](#eq:eqn1)).

   Thanks for your question, and thanks for answering it for others!

   F-

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3. fletcher closed this discussion on 13 Jun, 2013 08:05 PM.