On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:11:46AM +0200, Jens Frank wrote:
For an example see
http://jeluf.mine.nu/jf/newcodebase/wiki.phtml?title=Triangle
It looks beautiful. That is going to make a lot of the contributers on mathematics very happy. A few comments though:
I'd prefer a bit shorter and easier-to-read mark-up. Axel Boldt suggested [$ x \leq y $] and Toby Bartels $$ x \leq y $$. Since $$ already means something in LaTeX I'd prefer Axel's suggestion. Maybe we could even let [$$ x \leq y $$] be a displayed formula? There should be a difference between in-line and displayed formula.
It would be nice if we could stay close to what is done on planetmath.org so that it wouldn't be too hard to interchange write-ups. They are working with a separate preamble in which you can include extra packages. That's very nice if you want to do special stuff like commuting diagrams in category theory. However, I can see how that would complicate the implementation and one could ask if it would be worth it. At least our assumed preamble should be very similar to their default preable.
Concerning safety I think I'd prefer Lee's solution including a time-out for TeX that takes too long to compute. It's the most robust solution and other solutions like parsing (a limited subset of) TeX would probably mean that we would have to decide which subset we support which would probably turn out to be too restrictive.
-- Jan Hidders