My comment policy, which includes instructions for leaving LateX equations. Please do not leave an off-topic comment on a new post, unless no old posts are available on that topic. If your comment doesn't appear, please email me (it was probably caught in the spam filter).

Avoid using the symbols > or <, as these could be confused with html tags, unless of course you wanted to make an html tag, in which case some of the basic ones are available, e.g.<i>text</i> for italics, or <a href="url">text</a> for links.