How about a plugin adding a
-[[preprocessor_directive|preprocessordirective]] to render some given LaTeX
+[[preprocessor_directive|ikiwiki/directive]] to render some given LaTeX
and include it in the page? This could either render the LaTeX as a PNG via
-[[debpkg dvipng]] and include the resulting image in the page, or perhaps
+[[!debpkg dvipng]] and include the resulting image in the page, or perhaps
render via [HeVeA](http://pauillac.inria.fr/~maranget/hevea/index.html),
[TeX2page](http://www.ccs.neu.edu/~dorai/tex2page/tex2page-doc.html), or
similar. Useful for mathematics, as well as for stuff like the LaTeX version
>>> Have a look at [pandoc](http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/). It can make PDFs via pdflatex. --[[roktas]]
+>>>> Interesting, just yesterday I was playing with pandoc to make PDFs from my Markdown. Could someone advise me on how to embed these PDFs into ikiwiki? I need some guidance in implementing this. --[[JosephTurian]]
+
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[here](http://ng.l4x.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=ikiwiki.git/.git;a=blob;f=IkiWiki/Plugin/latex.pm) is a first stab at
> fixed a bug (the first time it was run, it tried to write the png file
> before the teximages/ directory existed) and checked the result in.
>
-> Can you please flesh out [[plugins/tex]] with
+> Can you please flesh out [[plugins/teximg]] with
> whatever documentation people who know tex will expect to see?
Okay, I'll fill this up today I think with information about the plugin
Done. Is that docu fine with you?
+>> Perhaps add some documentation about the kind of tex code that can be
+>> used, or a link to some documentation so people who don't know latex
+>> well can figure this out?
> Also, please review my changes. In particular, I changed the @badthings
> array to use qr//, which is much clearer, but it needs to be tested that
> I'm thinking about renameing the preprocessor directive to teximg.
-> \[[teximg code="" alt="foo"]] makes sense.. Would it make sense to rename
+> \[[!teximg code="" alt="foo"]] makes sense.. Would it make sense to rename
> the whole plugin, or do you think that other tex stuff should go in this
> same plugin?
>
> --[[Joey]]
-[[tag soc]]
-[[tag wishlist]]
+[[!tag soc]]
+[[!tag wishlist]]