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If you have a question about SMath Studio that isn't answered in this wiki, posting your question on the
SMath forum might help you find the answer. Here are some tips for using the forum:
Copying-and-pasting an Expression from SMath Studio to the Forum
Through the clipboard you can share any individual math expression from the SMath Studio application by using the MATH forum tag. (You cannot copy multiple expressions at one time, but you can include multiple expressions in your forum posting by copying them one at a time and using a separate MATH tag for each.) Please take a look at the screenshots below.
First, here's how you select the MATH tag in the forum's postings editor:
 Figure 1: Using MATH tag of the SMath Studio forum. |
Now let's discuss copying the expression itself from SMath Studio.
To select the expression in SMath Studio for copying, you canNOT just drag a selection rectangle over the expression as though you were going to move the expression on the page:
 Figure 2: Wrong selection method for pasting an expression into forum. |
Instead, first click anywhere in the expression, to open the expression for editing:
 Figure 3: The first step in selecting an expression for copy-and-paste. |
Then, within the selection rectangle that appeared around the expression, drag the mouse pointer over the expression so that the part you want is highlighted:
 Figure 4: The second step in selecting an expression for copy-and-paste. |
Next, copy-and-paste into the forum's text-entry box, as shown:
 Figure 5: Copying an expression to the forum via standard system clipboard. |
Note: Each time someone views your forum posting, the expression is converted from text format to picture format by a Web service that's hosted on the smath.info website. This Web service interprets the character ';' as a function arguments delimiter and ',' as a decimal symbol. If your locale settings are different than these, then the text formatting that is produced when you copy the expression from your SMath Studio will be incompatible with the mentioned Web service. You can easily avoid this problem, as described next.
For example, if your locale settings use the ',' character for function arguments and '.' as a decimal symbol, you might have something like the following in an SMath Studio worksheet:
 Figure 6: Expressions as-localized in SMath Studio. |
Pasting the "if" into the forum produces the following:
 Figure 7: Expression pasted into forum per locale of author of posting. |
... which then appears on the forum as follows:
 Figure 8: Expression rendered per locale of smath.info. |
To avoid this, once the text is pasted into the forum, manually change the function arguments delimiters to ';' and the decimal symbols to ',':
 Figure 9: Expression edited for locale. |
This then produces:
 Figure 10: Expression successfully shown in forum. |
Much better!
Please Use the Forum's "Preview" Button before Posting
This will help you to catch mistakes, or clarify unclear statements you make, before other people see them.