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Full list of supported buttons:

Buttons used nearly everywhere

###Dollarify ($)

  • Encloses selection in $...$
  • Enabled on all supported sites
  • Keyboard shortcut: Alt-M
  • Works differently on electronics.SE (gives \$...$\ because these people talk about money as well and mathjax needs escaping)

###Double Dollarify ($$)

  • Encloses selection in $$...$$
  • Enabled on all supported sites
  • Keyboard shortcut: None (use Alt-M twice, that should do the trick). Exception: Alt-D on electronics.SE

###Exit math mode

  • Not an actual button, only a hotkey
  • Enabled on all supported sites
  • Finds the next dollar symbol and puts the cursor ahead of it. Useful to keep the flow of typing.
  • Keyboard shortcut: Alt-Z

###SI-ify (SI)

  • Encloses selection in \:\mathrm{...} (upright text with an extra separator space for SI units)
  • Enabled on Physics, Chemistry, and Electronics
  • Keyboard shortcut: Alt-S

##Site-specific buttons ###chem-ify (O2)

  • Encloses selection in $\ce{...}$ (mhchem chemical equation formatter)
  • Use the $ button on the \ce'd text to make this a block element (use Alt-M)
  • Enabled on Chemistry only
  • Keyboard shortcut: Alt-C

Vector Fields(E)

  • Encloses selection in \mathbf{...}
  • Enabled on Physics.SE only
  • Keyboard shortcut: Alt-V

###Big O notation (only a hotkey)

  • Encloses selection in $\mathcal{O}(...)$
  • Enabled on Crypto.SE, CS.SE, and cstheory.SE only
  • Keyboard shortcut: Alt-O

###Sans-serif (NP)

  • Encloses selection in $\mathsf{...}$
  • Enabled on CS/CStheory.SE only
  • Keyboard shortcut: Alt-S
Manishearth
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