"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
news:4ad228ec$1@news.povray.org...
> All it seems to say is that there should be a "min" in there. What do you 
> actually want to change in the formula?

Exactly ...

> I notice the brackets around the fraction aren't tall enough to enclose it 
> properly. You can fix it like so:
>
>   ( \frac{...}{...} )
>
> becomes
>
>   \left( \frac{...}{...} \right)

OK ... this was helpful ... thanks

> I should perhaps also point out that, technically, when TeX sees 
> <math>cat</math>, it interprets it as "c * a * t", which probably isn't 
> what you want. Use <math>\text{\it cat}</math> instead. (There's a subtle 
> difference in the letter spacing - and also the typeface is slightly 
> different.)

The \it tag (italics?) was causing me grief. It gave a lexing error ... 
failed to parse. With the \text tag alone I get normal typeface, without it 
I get the italics typeface. it doesn't seem to be behaving as you suggest.

Here's what it looks like now:
http://wiki.povray.org/content/Documentation_Talk:Reference_Section_4

I think it looks like what Mike was getting at ... correct?

Jim

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