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How to generate actuarial symbols in LaTeX

When I started setting up this website some years ago, I wanted to embed actuarial and mathematical symbols in my blogs. I figured out that the easiest way to achieve this is by using LaTeX. The difficult part was to implement LaTeX on my  Foxpro webserver such that it would automate the generation process.  EventualIy I reached my goals by using a combination of ImageMagick, Ghostscript, Latex and Foxpro code that converted LaTeX scripts in webimages. The easy part was to write actuarial symbols in LaTeX, which was just a matter of  sub- and supscripting.

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