This is a quick tutorial on how to use Wolfram Community in almost no time. Just a few minutes of reading through this post will save you a lot of time and make your posts effective and encouraging positive communications. Please be kind and give back to Community by following these simple rules:
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Wolfram Community provides the following essential features that we will overview:
Lightweight crystal clear post editor empowering you to post on the fly
Wolfram notebook can be embedded directly in the post
Wolfram Language code formatting for easy copy-paste between Community and notebooks and lively syntax highlighting.
Images insertion anywhere in the post from the web or your computer, by drag and drop or browsing to a file.
Full mathematical notation for advanced formulas
File attachments for any format you can find in Wolfram Language Documentation
Now lets take a look at these in a bit of more detail.
Post Editor
Wolfram Community Editor uses Markdown Syntax with full documentation available here. While you are typing your post help is always available at the top right corner. Editor has a clear simple but yet powerful and flexible functionality outlined on the diagram below:
The Editor consists of two parts: edit area and preview area. While you use plain text markup syntax described in the documentation the preview area shows you exactly how post will appear after you publish it.
Adding Notebook
The button "Add Notebook" in the editor allows you to seamlessly embed Wolfram notebooks in your post either from your desktop, or from your Wolfram Cloud account using a link to your publicly published notebook. Please make sure that you are logged in your wolfram cloud account in wolframcloud.com before using this feature.
Title
If you’re publishing an article in a head post (not a comment), do NOT include the title in the notebook. Instead, enter the title in the post editor’s header to avoid duplication.
Code Formatting
Proper code formatting is an essential part of posting. Only then other member will be able to understand, copy and paste code between Community and notebooks. If a new line has 4 space at the beginning it is formatted as code.
- Type code in the editor or simply paste it from for example Mathematica
- Select all code
- Press CMD+K on Mac or CTRL+K on Windows
- Alternatively press code button shown on the very first diagram
- You can also use TAB key
This is how a properly formatted code block should look like - note beautiful syntax highlighting:
info = WolframAlpha["weather", "PodInformation"];
ids = Rest[DeleteDuplicates[#[[1, 1, 1]] & /@ info]];
titles = Map[{{#, 0}, "Title"} &, ids] /. info;
contents = Column[Cases[info, _[{{#, _}, "Content"}, val_] :> val]] & /@ ids;
MenuView[Thread[titles -> contents], ImageSize -> Automatic]
Images insertion
To insert an image anywhere in the text press image button indicated on the main diagram above. Follow simple instructions. You have a choice to
- Point to an image online by copying and pasting its URL in to the image up-loader form
- Browse to an image on your computer
- Drag and drop image from your computer
Please use only allowed image formats: .JPG, .PNG, .SVG, and .GIF. Images above 10MB will not be accepted. Files in format .GIF can be animated and we encourage their usage because they make your post very lively. Use the following tools for animated GIFs:
Mathematical Notation
Mathematical notation is enabled via MathJax. A very good tutorial can be found here: MathJax basic tutorial and quick reference. For Wolfram Language user it will be very easy to produce math formulas using built-in function TeXForm. For example code
TeXForm[Integrate[1/(1 - x^3), x]]
will produce output:
\frac{1}{6} \log \left(x^2+x+1\right)-\frac{1}{3} \log (1-x)+\frac{\tan^{-1}\left(\frac{2 x+1}{\sqrt{3}}\right)}{\sqrt{3}}
which when placed between $...$ (in-line) or $$...$$ (centered paragraph) will produce the following:
$$\frac{1}{6} \log \left(x^2+x+1\right)-\frac{1}{3} \log (1-x)+\frac{\tan^{-1}\left(\frac{2 x+1}{\sqrt{3}}\right)}{\sqrt{3}}$$
If you would like retain the original unevaluated expressions please use:
TeXForm[HoldForm[Integrate[1/(1 - x^3), x]]]
which when placed between $...$ (in-line) or $$...$$ (centered paragraph) will produce the following:
$$\int \frac{1}{1-x^3} \, dx$$
File Attachments
Files up to 10MB of any type found in Wolfram Language documentation can be attached to a post via the button at the bottom left corner of the Editor. Please attach only meaningful files - for example well structured and clear Mathematica notebooks or data. If images are not large it is better NOT use file attachments but insert images right in the text where appropriate to illustrate better the post content.
