10 Aug
2009
10 Aug
'09
6:14 p.m.
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Guillaume Lerouge <guillaume(a)xwiki.com>wrote;wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Thomas Mortagne
<thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com>wrote;wrote:
I think keeping PNG as the default format is fine too, most browsers accept
it without complaint.
xwiki-equation-displayer maybe ?
Few more suggestions: xwiki-equation-plotter, xwiki-formula-plotter,
xwiki-formula
- Asiri
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 16:14, Sergiu
Dumitriu<sergiu(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
> Hello Community,
>
> I have committed today the first implementation of a new XWiki feature:
> rendering mathematical equations into images. It is available as a
> standalone component, and as a syntax 2.0 macro.
>
>
>
> About the functionality.
>
> Equations are written in the TeX/LaTeX syntax, which is pretty simple,
> and seems to be the syntax of choice for mathematical equations in
other
> wikis, too. The macro can distinguish
between inline and block
equations
and
render them accordingly. The output can be either PNG (the default
one), GIF or JPEG. While PNG is definitely the best, I kept the other
two in case somebody really wants to use ancient browsers that only
understand GIF.
Q: Should I leave just PNG as the output format?
>
> Another feature is that the font size can be specified, in order to
> render larger or smaller equations. All the font size commands from
> LaTeX (from \tiny to \Huge) have an equivalent. I renamed them to a
more
easy to
understand name (also because the configuration is case
insensitive, so there's no difference between large and LARGE).
By default images are generated so that the font looks relatively OK
with the default XWiki skin on a 72 or 96 DPI display. They might look
disproportionate with a different DPI, or with a different default font
size.
Q: Is the default DPI setting OK?
Second, a few technical details:
The standalone component is located in
platform/core/xwiki-equation-rendering. I don't know if the name is the
I don't like this name either "rendering" is too much linked to the
rendering module now and this could be used by anyone, not only the
equation macro.
It's also true that xwiki-equation is not clear enough but you could
maybe find something else.