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 (43)

Your article was a good read, and I like the way you write.

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

I updated the Plugin to work with Joomla 1.7 (I have not tested it, but it should also work with 1.6). You can get it on http://widiland.bplaced.de/dies-und-das/57-mimetex-plugin-fuer-joomla-17.html

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Ravi - I have an updated version of JoomLaTeX (which is based on bot_mimetex) that is compatible with Joomla 1.6. You can get it from http://arcadiaresearch.com/blog/joomlatex.html

I need this plugin for joomla 1.6. Has anyone converted this plugin to 1.6? I could change the xml to get the Basic Option fields working but it is still not parsing the tag. Does anyone know what changes are required in php or other places for it to work in joomla 1.6.

Great job! I wonder when someone think about that!

Thanks a lot for this plug in. It´s amazing. Easy to install and works fantastically.

easy to use great..
Thank you very much for the plugin...

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

Greattttttt! I love your new JoomlaLaTeX plugin and your nice comparison page. I encourage everyone who is using bot_mimetex to upgrade to JoomlaLaTeX. It really has the best output quality. Well done, Anachronist!

Well, I have yet another improvement on this nice plugin. I modified it to work with the codecogs.com LaTeX server, which produces beautiful textbook-quality output. I call it JoomLaTeX. It's downloadable from my blog article mentioned a couple of posts below this.
I think this is the ultimate in typesetting quality for a math formula plugin. It works the same way as bot_mimetex, just be sure to enable it (disable or de-install bot_mimetex) and encapsulate your LaTeX code between {tex}...{/tex} tags.

Cool! I think I will switch to your bot_mathtex some day, too. I'm just too busy now. Thanks for letting me know.

Anachronist, don't be so humble. The project is open source. Everyone is free to modify the code the way they want it. I modified bot_mimetex from someone else's work, too.

Cheers,
Minh-Tri

I noticed that the original author's site for mimeTeX (not this plugin) has the notice:

"If latex is installed on your server then see mathTeX, the successor to mimeTeX. It's based on real LaTeX and renders higher quality images than mimeTeX. If latex is not available on your server, continue using mimeTeX."

Well, this plugin, bot_mimetex, fetches math formula images remotely, so there's no need for LaTeX on your server if we can do the same thing with mathTeX. So, I have modified Pham-Minh Tri's excellent plugin to work with mathTeX instead of mimeTeX. Sure enough, the output is somewhat improved.

You can download my version called bot_mathtex from the blog article I wrote comparing different ways of editing math equations in a Joomla environment. The article is at http://arcadiaresearch.com/blog/comparison-of-blog-friendly-math-equation-editors.

Pham-Minh Tri, you are welcome to make it available on your web site. It's your work, after all. All I did was replace all occurrences of 'mime' with 'math' in each file.

I tried first with mathpublisher. However, results of equations were too poor. manytimes Complicated maths became strange with mathpublishers. Further, it requires to change the latex code as well. Finally, I found your plug-in. Indeed,It is wonderful plugin for math expression. Thanks for your brriliant work.

It is a wonderful plugin. Works perfect. I trick I use is to go to wikipidea to borrow their equations and edit for my own purpose.

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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