On the other subject Sanford brought up: Maybe its even better to create a separate section in the forum for rendering problems (or at least split feature requests from problem reports), and then have a new thread for every issue? That way you could easily comment on specific issues, and you could track easier for yourself which ones are already fixed? Maybe that would be a cleaner way?

I don’t have plans to add it in the near future. But…

From the technical standpoint adding support for the
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tags is easy. Everything is already there:

* Parse out the contents of the
$-tags$
* Build a hash value somehow which will be used as an id (or something similar). An MD5 hash using the content stream should do it.
* Feed the text to TeX and let it produce an image out of it
* Pack theses images to Wiki2Touch style “math.bin” file, the utility pack.exe works already great for that
* The final change would be to let the parser exchange the $-Tags\; with\; a\; image\; tag,\; using\; the\; hash\; value\; as\; the\; filename\; or\; so\; for\; the\; image.$

One of the hard parts, which can really not be done by anyone, is installing TeX and setting it up to produce the images.

But if you like to produce such a “math.bin” go ahead. Let me know what hash coding you’ve used I will add that to the parser. It’s simple enough, the code for handling arbitrary tags is already in.

So let me know once you have such a “math.bin” file. ]]> http://haukap.net/2008/03/31/latest-changes/#comment-1225 Achim Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:51:19 +0000 http://haukap.net/2008/03/31/latest-changes/#comment-1225 Just out of curiosity: Do you have any ideas about math support yet? I figure it'll be a very complex beast... But there are a lot of pages that look really bad without it. Just out of curiosity: Do you have any ideas about math support yet? I figure it’ll be a very complex beast… But there are a lot of pages that look really bad without it.

yes sure. Having a new thread for the next version is fine for me.

Ironing out the remaining issues is a hard bread. Usually hard to track down and then either very simple to solve (German periodic system) or very hard to do (English Al Gore). No middle ground. At least I know why that happens. That’s worth a lot.

-Tom