Why don't we just implement a generic tag (or namespace, or whatever) for generation of images from some sort of text. Really, it shouldn't matter what the source of the image looks like (TeX, HTML, some crazy mix or something homespun).
The images can be generated by some sort of "plugin". The person entering the code could choose from a list of possible plugins. This way, we could have somebody who sees the value in using planetmath write a planetmath parsing plugin, and other plugins can be written as necessary.
If we tie ourselves to any one thing (like we did with MySQL), we're bound to end up spending a lot of time rewriting it all...
Jason
Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:49:28AM -0500, The Cunctator wrote:
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 08:00, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:13:11AM -0500, The Cunctator wrote:
I recommend that Wikipedia either 1) not use Tex-graphics, and stick to what can be done with plain-jane wiki/HTML, or 2) integrate efforts with planetmath.org.
Neither of these two solutions would work well, nor would "upload pngs".
I fail to see how the second method wouldn't work well-it's a philosophical approach, not a particular method. All I'm saying is that we should figure out ways to work with planetmath.org, not duplicate their effort.
It seems to me that our needs and theirs differ too much. Some efford could be saved but it's almost impossible that one solution would fit both problems. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@wikipedia.org http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l