bot_mimetex - A Joomla 1.5.x plugin for displaying TeX expressions PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 11 September 2008 06:41

Overview

This plugin includes LaTeX math expressions as gif images using mimeTeX within content items. It is based on the 'MSV Texbot' mambot of Andrés Felipe Vargas for Mambo. It has been rewritten to work with Joomla 1.5.x. The default installation uses Forkosh's mimetex.cgi to generate images. Thus, no TeX installation is needed. If you need more information about mimetex, please visit http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html

Download

The plugin can be downloaded at: here.

How to use

Encapsulate a TeX expression within a {tex} tag in your content item.  For example, {tex}c^2=a^2+b^2{/tex} would display this:

c^2=a^2+b^2

 

License

This plugin is released under the GNU General Public License version 3.

 

Last Updated on Friday, 12 September 2008 05:34
 
Comments (24)
Can I download this plugin for Joomla 1.0?
24 Sunday, 24 January 2010 10:22
Timba
Thanks!
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23 Tuesday, 22 September 2009 08:55
sghgfdh ghfgh
{tex}x^2{/tex}
It works with JCE Editor
22 Monday, 31 August 2009 20:04
Thadeu Penna
Thanks for the plugin. It works with JCE editor by using \\ rather than \ before LaTeX equations. Warm wishes from Niterói, 10 miles from Rio de Janeiro.
how to enable plugin
21 Tuesday, 18 August 2009 04:29
aldo
how to enable plugin in tinymce?
thanks
puppa
20 Wednesday, 22 July 2009 13:11
puppa
{tex}c^2=a^2+b^2{/tex}
Fixed!
19 Monday, 29 June 2009 22:09
Sam
Thanks! Got it, disabled and enabled again!
have you enabled it?
18 Monday, 29 June 2009 04:00
minhtri
After installing, have you enabled the plugin?
Plugin Not Working
17 Monday, 29 June 2009 01:06
Sam
Hello, I tried to install your plug-in today, however the articles I am outputting are just being output as text with no equation.
 
Do you think the minetex.cgi file has not been unpacked? If so how do I fix this?
Is it working on comments?
16 Monday, 08 June 2009 04:20
watchmath
Any chance that the plugin working on the comments section?
{tex}\int_a^b f(x)\, dx{/tex}
nice!
15 Friday, 22 May 2009 16:27
Christoph
thank you!
great!
14 Monday, 04 May 2009 13:33
fjft
Thank you very much for the plugin!!
RE: bot_mimetex does not work on fireboard (joomla 1.5)
13 Wednesday, 21 January 2009 12:25
Administrator
Sorry I can't help you now. First, I don't know what fireboard is (is it some sort of forum recently developed?). Second, I'm pretty busy at the moment. I would appreciate it if you can fix the issue and send me a patch to bot_mimetex. If you look at the source code, it is pretty straight forward to understand and change.

Best regards and Happy Lunar New Year,

Minh Tri
bot_mimetex does not work on fireboard (joomla 1.5)
12 Wednesday, 21 January 2009 10:24
NGUYEN Tai
I installed bot_mimetex for my site using joomla 1.5 and fireboard 1.0.4. The plugin works very well outside the fireboard forum. However, when I post a topic that contains latex formula in fireboard it can not work. Please help me.

Tai.
localhost installation, solved
11 Friday, 28 November 2008 00:17
minhtri
The problem has been solved.
localhost installation, cont.
10 Sunday, 23 November 2008 20:43
mslonik
Hello minhtri,Thanks again for your reply. I've attached output .html code to e-mail send to you today..I've chosen your gmail account. Perhaps it will be easier to continue our contacts by e-mail or any IM . Kind regards,mslonik
localhost installation, cont
9 Saturday, 22 November 2008 08:28
minhtri
It looks like the link to your mimetex.cgi was not properly extracted from Joomla's configuration class (i.e. JConfig). Let me look deeper into this. Meanwhile, can you paste the full HTML code instead of the url extracted from the SRC attribute of the IMG tag?
localhost installation, cont.
8 Friday, 21 November 2008 20:09
mslonik
Hello minhtri, Thank you for quick answer. I have no idea why your www editor did not allow me to put into a text. Because of that the whole message looks little bit messy.  Html code: http://localhost/plugins/editors/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/themes/advanced/source_editor.htm     Próba wprowadzenia równań LaTex-u w Joomla!: {tex}c^2=a^2+b^2{/tex}  {tex}w(z)={L\over\pi}\log z{/tex}   In configuration panel I can see that mode is enabled. I've no idea what is wrong. Perhaps smth with local privileges? As far as I know it is set correctly, but I'm not an expert. Any ideas?  
let's see
7 Friday, 21 November 2008 03:08
minhtri
This is strange. I can't reproduce the error. What was the HTML code that replaced the expression {tex}c^2=a^2+b^2{/tex}? Had the module been activated/enabled?
localhost installation, problem with mimetex and Joomla
6 Thursday, 20 November 2008 21:49
mslonik
Hello,How can I force your plugin to work with local installation of Joomla? I mean apache and joomla installed at localhost. I've installed mimetex.cgi successfully, what was checked with the following link:http://localhost/cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?x^2+y^2(I see on a display nicely formatted equation)  When I enter parameter of a mimetex b ot: mimeTeX location: http://localhost/cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi and I prepared very simple articele: {tex}c^2=a^2+b^2{/tex}  then I see just a text:  {tex}c^2=a^2+b^2{/tex} with no equation. What do I wrong? Kind regards,mslonik
i see... (cont)
5 Wednesday, 22 October 2008 10:13
minhtri
Oh, and if you can fix it, I would love to see your contribution as a new bot. Publishing code as open-source is always a pleasure to me. I hope you like it too.
i see...
4 Wednesday, 22 October 2008 09:49
minh tri
Hmm, interesting point. I've never used that pdf feature. I guess the bot should be expanded with some code interacting with the class(es) generating pdf. I'll save this request into a wish list for future development.
pdf
3 Monday, 20 October 2008 18:26
Gilles
Work fine....but I've a little problem:when viewing the pdf created by joomla for the article, it show jst the code {tex}c^2=a^2+b^2{/tex} instead (I would like to) of the GIF.What I don't know is:can I resolve this problem with the bot or with the way Joomla make the pdf?And I don't know if I would be able to solve this on my own.If someone got an idea.....
can download now
2 Friday, 17 October 2008 15:37
minhtri
My ISP changed server. That's why you couldn't download. The problem has been resolved.
great! but...
1 Wednesday, 15 October 2008 08:53
hahn
wow.. this is great!but why i cant download this plugins? thxhahn

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