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
of the ikiwiki [[/logo]].
+> [[users/JasonBlevins]] has also a plugin for including [[LaTeX]] expressions (by means of `itex2MML`) -- [[plugins/mdwn_itex]] (look at his page for the link). --Ivan Z.
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+>> I've [updated](http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~wking/unfolding-disasters/posts/mdwn_itex/) Jason's plugin for ikiwiki 3.x. --W. Trevor King
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ikiwiki could also support LaTeX as a document type, again rendering to HTML.
+> [[users/JasonBlevins]] has also a [[plugins/pandoc]] plugin (look at his page for the link): in principle, [Pandoc](http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/) can read and write [[LaTeX]]. --Ivan Z.
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Conversely, how about adding a plugin to support exporting to LaTeX?
>>> 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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+>>>> [[users/JasonBlevins]] has a [[plugins/pandoc]] plugin (look at his page for the link). --Ivan Z.
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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
a latex plugin. Examples [here](http://ng.l4x.org/latex/). Currently without image support for hevea. And the latex2html
output has the wrong charset and no command line switch to change that. Dreamland.
+As this link is not working, I setted a mirror here: <a href="http://satangoss.sarava.org/ikiwiki/latex.pm">http://satangoss.sarava.org/ikiwiki/latex.pm</a>.
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Okay, now is the time for a mid term report i think.
> 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]]
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+[[!tag soc]]
+[[!tag wishlist]]