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I think you need to be careful about a few things. In TeX, when you write
 * $$ 39\text{\%} \, $$

with the "%" _not_ in \text{}, the whole TeX display fails to get rendered. I fixed this in the article on Bayes' theorem and then you undid that. I've fixed it again. In a heading in said "...and the Existence of God" with that incorrectly capitalized initial "E". I changed it to "...and the existence of God", using lower case as required by WP:MOS, but you put the capital back again. I linked to An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances, with the nouns capitalized and "towards" and "solving" in lower case, as in the essay as originally published. The link worked, but you then changed it to a version with a capital initial "T" in "Towards" and a capital initial "S" in "solving", and it became a red link. I've now both put it back to the way I'd written it and created a redirect page for the version of the title with the capitals that you put in. Michael Hardy (talk) 21:55, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm, that is very interesting - for me it is the other way round. If you write it in \text{}, it fails, whereas if you write it without \text{}, it renders. (For example, for your syntax above I get a big red "Failed to parse (lexing error)" message. I have just tried the various rendering settings in Preferences > Appearance. All of the settings fail, except for "HTML if very simple or else PNG" - the formula in the first example fails, but the second succeeds, rendering as a PNG!


 * Which setting are you using, and how do these render for you? For me the first fails, the others are successful.
 * $$ 39\text{\%} \, $$
 * $$ 39\% \, $$
 * $$ 39\% \, $$


 * About the capitalisation - my apologies. I did some work on that section in a text editor, and pasted it back into the article having not noticed your intervening edits. Gnathan87 (talk) 22:33, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

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 * Many thanks, much appreciated :D Gnathan87 (talk) 20:02, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Bayesian inference
Hi! You have saved a lot of versions within a short time. Please note the possibility to use the "show preview" button (or shift-alt-P) between using the "save page" button (or shift-alt-S). In that way your edits will appear in the Revision history of Bayesian inference [] in a more readable way. Bo Jacoby (talk) 13:11, 15 November 2011 (UTC).
 * Yes. I'm really sorry! Trying to overhaul that article is difficult and it's taking many revisions to clarify the delicate subject matter. I'll try to be more conservative in saving. Gnathan87 (talk) 15:35, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

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