Hi Paul,
can you compare this to the usage of the MathTran webservice (for which contributed a very short macro found in xwiki jira) ?
MathTran is a very good service but there are some potential issues: - Not reachable from a local wiki (for ex. from a company LAN) without internet access (or with limited internet access) - Availability: MathTran doesn't guarantee a level of QoS (from the MathTran website: "We try to keep the site on-line all day, every day but we do not guarantee this") - Performances: Likewise But as MathTex supports pluggable renderers, a MathTran renderer can be also added if required. Thus users could use the same macro syntax whatever the renderer actually used. It probably means I should merge some of your previous works, if you're ok.
Could you provide a web-page about the MathTeX plugin.
You can find some demos here (temporary page) : http://midpath.thenesis.org/bin/view/Main/MathTexPlugin
MathTeX seems to be a name that is used for several different things, among others a cgi script.
The MathTex plugin is not related to libraries with similar names. I don't think it really collides as it's just a xwiki specific plugin and not a new library. But maybe another name would be better. -- Guillaume