Manual:Enable TeX

See also Meta-Wiki Displaying Formula

Requirements

 * texvc, the script MediaWiki calls to render the "math" fragments, is included in the "math" sub-directory of the installation
 * OCaml 3.06 (Objective Caml) or later is required to compile texvc; this can be acquired from http://caml.inria.fr/ if your system doesn't have it available.
 * The makefile requires GNU make.
 * Rasterization is done via LaTeX, dvips, ImageMagick, and Ghostscript. These need to be installed (probably available in your Linux distribution) and in the PATH: the commands,  ,  ,   should all work on the command line.
 * To work properly with rendering non-ASCII Unicode characters, a supplemental TeX package is needed ("cjk-latex" in Debian)

Getting

 * texvc : Should be in your MediaWiki distribution (in the sub-directory math/).
 * OCaml : Latest Objective Caml release
 * GNU make : On Linux, you should have it.
 * Under Windows, you can use MinGW or Cygwin.
 * All others: see GNU Make - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)


 * LaTeX and dvips : see TeX Live - TeX Users Group (It's large and a pain to get.)
 * Many Linux systems have LaTeX already installed.


 * ImageMagick : ImageMagick: Install from Binary Distribution (a binary distribution for MacOSX is provided by Entropy)
 * Ghostscript : On Linux, you may have it. It is easiest to install from packages for your distribution.
 * Source files are available from SourceForge.net

Installation

 * 1) Change to the "math" sub-directory of your MediaWiki install
 * 2) Run 'make' (or 'gmake' if GNU make is not your default make). This should produce the texvc executable.
 * 3) Enable $wgUseTeX and $wgEnableUploads in your LocalSettings.php and everything should work.