On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:06:18AM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote:
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:01:23PM +0100, Erik Moeller wrote:
Tomasz' texvc generates the images in a directory and re-uses them on demand (the TeX strings are hashed and stored in a table). I doubt it would be a performance hit at all, but if it would, texvc->latex->dvips->convert could easily be executed on a remote machine.
Well, that is fine, but I'd prefer having the TeX text and resulting images in the database. Makes internal coding a lot easier. We have namespaces; there is no reason not to use them. Having it in-database lets us check for orphaned equations trivially.
There is no reason to have the image in the DB. All you need is the meta-information to do what you want to do. And that's what's already going to be put into the DB. You can check for orphaned images without having the actual image in the database.
Regards,
JeLuF