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.
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