User talk:Tori

MediaWiki & Mathematics
Hi, I've seen the text on your user page and if I understand your problem correctly, you want to be able to use MediaWiki code/syntax within the  tags. I believe it would be possible to achieve this with the MathJax extensions (maybe with some little modifications). Please consider taking a look on it. —Matěj Grabovský 17:35, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Yes, you are right. I try to set up the extensions but yet no achievements. The message is
 * Failed to parse (PNG conversion failed; check for correct installation of latex, dvips, gs, and convert):

The mediawiki sees the filesystem different from that I see from the command line. I have compared these two filesystems; the preliminary results are very pessimistic:
 * 1. There is no way to emulate the filesystem seen from mediawiki (I cannot test the commands from the command line). There is no way to check which of programs fails: latex, dvips, gs or convert. There is no way to check, wether the path for each of this command is indicated correctly or not.
 * 2. It is vain to install Latex, dvips, gs and convert at the server: the distribution does not allow the user to indicate the destination; these programs are installed to the directory, unreachable for the mediawiki.

I do not know, is it an internal bug of mediawiki, or the internal bug of the macintosh filesystem, or just their incompatibility. Tori 18:36, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
 * P.S. I load the MathJax and try to play it. Tori 19:08, 5 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, setting up texvc and getting it work is really painful. I myself have tried it once on Windows, but support for utilities like latex and OCaml is not very good there, so I gave up. MathJax is great, because you don't have to deal with those server-side problems as the equations are rendered by JavaScript in the client's browser. —Matěj Grabovský 19:47, 5 March 2011 (UTC)