Topic on Extension talk:Math

Hi, I just installed this plugin, but I have no idea of the extents of which I can use latex. Is it just normal latex, are there certain packages used, can we modify which packages are available etc... I can't find any information on how to actually use this extension.

See w:Help:Math

Thanks, though I still don't know what packages are included in the math tags, can I use my own custom latex packages? I'd like to create algorithms, but each option requires the import of a package, is this possible? Where can I learn more?

This is really complicated. If you run it on your server and you trust that the input you can set Manual:$wgMathDisableTexFilter to 'always' and use a custom mathoid installation. This uses mathjax in the background and in theory you might be able to use all the packages that exist for MathJax. However, for algorithms you should be better off with extension Extension:SyntaxHighlight. Extension math was designed only for math and some chemestry.

I think your right. As of right now I will use the following example from wikipedia to write my pseudocode:

algorithm Halton-Sequence is
    inputs: index $i$
            base $b$
    output: result $r$

    $f\leftarrow 1$
    $r\leftarrow 0$

    while $i>0$ do
        $f\leftarrow f/b$
        $r\leftarrow r+f*(i\operatorname {mod} b)$
        $i\leftarrow \lfloor i/b\rfloor$

    return $r$

Although it would be great if we could render tikz directly through mathoid (not sure if that's possible)

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