[Pmwiki-users] More blue skye stuff...

[Robin Sheat]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:25:01PM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:
> I think the math editor in LyX is awesome, and in the end I was actually
> doing quite a bit of vector algegra using LyX for jotting down results
> (rather than using paper and pen...)  Anyway, I think it'd be really cool
> if we could make writing math on a wikipage as easy as writing normal
> text. However, I can't imagine "normal" people writing something that 
> looks like LaTeX as wiki markup, so a tool is needed.
Making a tool would require doing something like having a Java applet 
(or maybe a XUL program, but that's kinda restrictive) to do it. 

However, I wouldn't mind using standard LaTeX notation and having it 
automagically converted to a .png on the fly. I have a script that does 
this for some presentation software (magicpoint), so I can embed 
x=\frac{a}{b} directly into it. How hard would this be to implement in 
PmWiki? Some of the things that I use it for (research notes and so on) 
would make use of it. Assuming, naturally, that I have some basic tools 
on my server (which I do because it is a desktop machine) such as LaTeX 
and ImageMagick.

Your markup could be something like [[$x=\frac{a}{b}$]] :)

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