Talk:MediaWiki and LaTeX on a host with shell access

Important Notice to mathTeX public web service users
mathTeX's ISP no longer permits "dreamhost" subdomains. That means your  tags of the form will not work after November 30, 2011. Change them all to That is, just remove the "dreamhost." from all tags. That works now. To repeat, the address of the public mathTeX server is now so write tags of the form to access it. See http://www.forkosh.com/mathtex.html for more info. Thanks, John Forkosh.

Code Bug
As one can see the substituted string (f.e. $code) is not escaped. That means one can do html-injection (including JavaScript injection) and possibly (check is needed) php-code injection.

Wikitex
The whole paragraph wikitex is not clear at all. For example where do I get the file wikitex.math.inc.tex ? (The mentionned site is not telling anything about this file)
 * Best --Colonna 12:44, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Math typing fails. May wikitex help?
I have problem with typing of math: the mediawiki cannot find the directory where the necessary components are, for example,

Failed to parse (PNG conversion failed; check for correct installation of latex, dvips, gs, and convert): x^2

If I install wikitex, may it help to resolve the problem?

Untitled
to use mtag.php with math tag (not  or ) just comment out case 'math': in includes/parser/Parser.php 87.116.212.130 04:23, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Maybe, not  ?

Move Page
Can we move this page to a Sub-Page of the Math extension? --Schubi87 (talk) 20:14, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
 * It has more uses than only for the Math extension, it's better as a subject in its own right. --Rob Kam (talk) 00:12, 19 April 2013 (UTC)