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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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]]
+
+>>>> [[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.
Okay, the last version of the tex plugin for ikiwiki can be downloaded [here](https://www.der-winnie.de/~winnie/gsoc07/tex.pm).
+> I've looked this over, fixed the indenting, fixed some variable names
+> ("$foo" is a bad variable name), removed a gratuotuous use of `tie`,
+> 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/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 didn't break the checking code when I did it. It would be nice to write
+> a test case that tries to feed it bad code and makes sure it rejects it.
+
+I'll test this now on my server. I'll report here later.
+Okay, checked. it works fine. My blacklist tests were successfull.
-[[tag soc]]
+>
+> Does it really make sense to have an alt tag for the image
+> that contains the tex code? Will that make any sense when browsing
+> without images?
+
+Mh.. For people who know latex very well this would be enough to imagine how the image would look like.
+This are of course the minority of people (but I guess also the minority of people are using non-gui browsers).
+
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+> I'm thinking about renameing the preprocessor directive to teximg.
+> \[[!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?
+
+I'll think over this until I'm at work ;) Only for rendering images... not for generating .tex files .../wiki/
+the name is all the same i think. If you like teximg better than switch :)
+
+
+> Note: I removed the style= attribute, since as I've told you, the
+> htmlsanitizer strips those since they can be used to insert javascript. I
+> put in a class=teximage instead; the style sheet could be modified to
+> style that, if you want to send a patch for that.
+
+Ah yes.. sorry forgot to update the plugin in my public_html folder %-). This was my last change in this plugin :) Sorry.
+
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+>
+> --[[Joey]]
-[[tag wishlist]]
+[[!tag soc]]
+[[!tag wishlist]]