On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 13:11 +0200, Bert Niehaus wrote:
> Is it possible to integrate "texvc" (used in mediawiki - wiki of
> WikiPedia) to improve maxima output formulars.
> maxima can produce LaTeX output with tex(%);
> "texvc" can generate images from LaTeX-formulas (in WikiPedia texvc
> parses and converts the LaTeX-input expression into an image, visible in
> the web front end).
That's a question for the projects working on graphical front-ends for
Maxima, and not for this list.
> Are there better solutions than texvc?
Yes. What I don't like about texvc its dependence in too many extra
packages: latex, dvips, ghostscript, imagemagick.
There is mimetex (http://www.forkosh.dreamhost.com/source_mimetex.html)
which is an independent C program that does not require latex or dvips.
The result is not as good as latex's and it is not 100% compatible, but
it is fast.
I have my own wiki system, with a solution in between the last two. It
depends on latex, but it does not use dvips+ghostscript+imagemagick
to generate PNG graphics; instead, the dvi output from latex is
processed through dvipng. You can see an example in:
http://villate.org/wikiup/examples/example1.html
and the source for that example in:
http://villate.org/wikiup/examples/example.html
regards,
Jaime