On Oct 8, 2004, at 2:21 AM, Jim Higson wrote:
AFAIKS, there is no way, given the raw wiki code to
locate an image
generated from a section of wikitext on the server.
I'm fairly certain the filename is a hash of the text (probably after
some limited processing).
I think some kind of namespace for automatically
generated images
would be
helpful, for example:
/images/wikitex/Wikitex/math1.gif
(where Wikitex is the name of the article, and math1 indicates the
first
use of math wikitext on that article)
This would make it impossible to locate an image based only on the
text, since you would also need to know the context (which page it's on
and what other TeX areas are on it).
It also would mean you'd have to separately rasterize the same TeX
fragments when they appear on different pages (waste of CPU time and
disk space) and regenerate all TeX fragments on a page when you change
the order (ditto only more so). Also this would create caching
problems, since a cached TeX image would become incorrect when the
order changed.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)