[[!template id=plugin name=teximg author="[[PatrickWinnertz]]"]]
-[[!tag type/chrome type/slow]]
+[[!tag type/widget type/slow]]
This plugin provides a [[ikiwiki/directive/teximg]] [[ikiwiki/directive]],
that renders LaTeX formulas into images.
-Of course you will need LaTeX installed for this to work.
+You will need LaTeX installed for this to work, specifically something
+providing `latex` in the path. You will also need either `dvipng` or a
+combination of `dvips` and `convert` from ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick.
-See [this site](http://www.der-winnie.de/opensource/gsoc2007) for rendered
-images.
+On Debian systems, the relevant package names are `texlive-latex-base`
+and either `dvipng` or `graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat`.
## configuration