I see, very helpful idea, thank you !
And what if the formula is really long ? I guess there are limits to the
length of the URL, so is it possible in this case to send a POST message and
retrieve the same result ?
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
2010/12/13 Gabriel Sandor
<gabi.t.sandor(a)gmail.com>om>:
Is it possible to retrieve (preferably via the
MediaWiki API) an image
representing a mathematical formula given in the <math> tags that are
frequently encountered in Wikipedia articles ?
There's no direct way to do
this, although I guess it could be
implemented. A workaround would be to do something like
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&text=
<math>\gamma=\frac{1}{\sqrt{1-v^2}}</math>&format=yamlfm
, which will give you the HTML generated for this <math> tag, which
could be an image (like in this case), or HTML if the formula is
sufficiently simple (try a^2+b^2=c^2 for instance).
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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