bot_mimetex - A Joomla 1.5.x plugin for displaying TeX expressions

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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)

Thanks!

{tex}x^2{/tex}

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 in tinymce?
thanks

{tex}c^2=a^2+b^2{/tex}

Thanks! Got it, disabled and enabled again!

After installing, have you enabled the plugin?

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?

Any chance that the plugin working on the comments section?
{tex}\int_a^b f(x)\, dx{/tex}

thank you!

Thank you very much for the plugin!!

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

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.

The problem has been solved.

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

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?

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?

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?

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

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.

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.

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.....

My ISP changed server. That's why you couldn't download. The problem has been resolved.

wow.. this is great!but why i cant download this plugins? thxhahn

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