Hi Guillaume, On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Paul Libbrecht <[email protected]> wrote:
Le 03-juin-09 à 16:30, Guillaume Legris a écrit :
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
Against this, the plugin could do caching at the xwiki level. This would also enable the very famous js-finety of MathTran that can adjust baselines (because it can then parse the png header).
Pluggeability is dangerous: if you change the thing it might break all the fomrulæ but I guess it's acceptable.
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.
You can certainly do that but there's very little to be done.
MathTran can also be compiled on your own server...
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.
Then just choose "XWiki TeX Plugin" I would suggest.
Great, I'd love to see the plugin in action somewhere to see how it behaves. XWiki TeX Plugin or XWikiTeX sounds good to me as a name for the plugin. Guillaume paul
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