It’s OK and I appreciate your help. You’ve already given me enough to figure out how to proceed.
My situation re: Julia is maybe unique in that at my age, I’m trying to choose one programming language to better understand programming itself. I began with C, which is unwieldy, outdated and problematic, but certainly vital and still at the root of our global systems. I liked it as a first language because you can see how the syntax and algorithms evolved together in those early days. But though you can create a program in C to say, create the Fibonacci series, it’s really a systems programming language - a fascinating area of computing, but very difficult.
I like Julia as a high-level language for its elegant syntax, amazing REPL and packages and for its focus on math and science computation. I don’t want to design websites or create games, so I felt that I found a language that I could stay with because of its math and science focus. I’m reviewing Algebra in a serious way and I like that Julia can plot functions like parabolas, fractals and so much more. I learned that I could use Julia, Latexify and Markdown to render formulas, which led to my questions here. I learned from you that I don’t necessarily need Julia to do this - but that’s why I like this forum. I may use LaTeX in algebra articles I write or maybe on GitHub. But just learning how to latexify and post an expression here on this forum is a tool I wanted to be able to use.
Again, my ‘needs’ are purely academic and I’m aware that there are many here who have serious work to do. I’m just playing with Julia - jumping around and learning. So I’m a bit modest about asking questions here on Discourse. When I do, I get kindness and encouragement, as well as some tough-love answers and they’re all on target. I am then overwhelmed by the complexity of the information that I requested!
Since you asked, I thought I’d be clear about my personal approach here. I hope that my esoteric questions may prove useful in some small way and perhaps open topics that those who are busy with serious work wouldn’t have the time to contemplate. These questions will likely all be at an elementary level. As someone who’s coming to love this language, I think it’s something I can offer to the community and Julia’s creators - ie - not answers, but maybe good questions.