Enabling math markup

Enabling math markup Organic Design procedure

Enabling math markup requires the following binaries latex, dvips, gs, and ImageMagicks convert . These must all be available in $PATH. The binary texvc must also be available, either as a binary or source installation.

Installation of texvc

From source

1. Note: OCaml 3.06 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 apt-get commands apt-get install dvipng tetex-extra cjk-latex ocaml (documented in Debian Post Install) install OCaml.
2. Inside each mediawiki instance ./math directory there is a README file which documents the process involved to make an executable from source called texvc.

Binary

The apt-get install mediawiki-math creates the texvc executable in /usr/local/bin.

You should then test that it works from the command line for example;

 texvc /tmp /var/www/mediawiki-1.12.0/math "y=x+2" iso-8859-1

should create a file in /var/www/mediawiki-1.12.0/math.

Make sure the directories 'tmp' and 'math' under 'images' exist and are writable.

LocalSettings.php customization

The following lines need to be added;

{{{1}}}

See also

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