[xwiki-devs] towards a MathTran XWiki macro for TeX-based equations
Hello, we started to approach the embedding of the MathTran service for XWiki embedding of formulae. A very very rudimentary version (based on velocity macros) is at http://i2geo.net/bin/Sandbox/Formulae Clearly, we'll make a macro instead of a velo-macro, so that syntax has some input freedom (you can't put \cdot currently!), and maybe even a plugin (so as to cache at the xwiki-server-side the resulting image. That'll work well, with baseline, for html-rendered pages. That will be somewhat ugly, however, for print (gross resolution, nothing vector). Having discussed with a MathTran developer we realized it would be easy to actually use the DVI to embed for print provided the fonts are installed on the XWiki server (they are freely available). This file is very small and is in the picture's metadata. The DVI format is basically a vector format that says where to place which characters. Is it possible to extend the print features for some islands so that it "draws on a Graphics2D" ? That would solve our approach without the requirement of any installation on the XWiki-server except for the fonts. thanks in advance paul
Paul Libbrecht wrote:
Hello,
we started to approach the embedding of the MathTran service for XWiki embedding of formulae. A very very rudimentary version (based on velocity macros) is at http://i2geo.net/bin/Sandbox/Formulae
Hi Paul, Not an answer, just thanks for this development. I've sent a snapshot with the formulae available in the sandbox to researchers here and I think this will help me a lot promoting XWiki in our environment :-) Cheers, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez Your EPEC Network ICT Team
[Ricardo Rodriguez] Your EPEC Network ICT Team wrote:
Paul Libbrecht wrote:
Hello,
we started to approach the embedding of the MathTran service for XWiki embedding of formulae. A very very rudimentary version (based on velocity macros) is at http://i2geo.net/bin/Sandbox/Formulae
By the way. I've registered myself to your site and logged in prior to click in the validation link. Is this the expected behavior? Thanks! -- Ricardo Rodríguez Your EPEC Network ICT Team
Thanks Ricardo, it's a bizarreness I had observed, then could not reproduce... and now you did... it's really based on the default XWiki... can it be someone else has encountered such a bug ? thanks paul Le 14 févr. 08 à 12:33, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your EPEC Network ICT Team a écrit :
By the way. I've registered myself to your site and logged in prior to click in the validation link. Is this the expected behavior? Thanks!
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Paul Libbrecht <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
we started to approach the embedding of the MathTran service for XWiki embedding of formulae. A very very rudimentary version (based on velocity macros) is at http://i2geo.net/bin/Sandbox/Formulae
Hi Paul, This looks very promising, I can't wait to use it. Thanks! Marta
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