Math Rendering - Wikitech-l - lists.wikimedia.org

Rob Church

27 Sep 27 Sep

9:05 a.m.

On 27/09/2007, John Andrewartha <mulga(a)flinders.homeunix.org> wrote:

Hi, I have MW 1.11.0 installed on FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE with latex2e gs dvips and dvipng on Apache 2.2.4_2 The above packages work OK from the keyboard. MW works as intended, the texvc builds, but, still no rendering of math. The .tex file is created in /math/tmp with, no log. It seems I am not calling latex and CO after. I have tried making the path explicit in ./math/render.ml and rebuilt, still no. Also tried is "env latex ....." in render.ml same result. What am I doing wrong???

Is $wgUseTex or whatever it's called now enabled in LocalSettings.php? Do you receive any error messages on pages where math should appear? Rob Church

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John Andrewartha

29 Sep 29 Sep

3:15 a.m.

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:05:00 pm Rob Church wrote:

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On 27/09/2007, John Andrewartha <mulga(a)flinders.homeunix.org> wrote:

Hi, I have MW 1.11.0 installed on FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE with latex2e gs dvips and dvipng on Apache 2.2.4_2 The above packages work OK from the keyboard. MW works as intended, the texvc builds, but, still no rendering of math. The .tex file is created in /math/tmp with, no log. It seems I am not calling latex and CO after. I have tried making the path explicit in ./math/render.ml and rebuilt, still no. Also tried is "env latex ....." in render.ml same result. What am I doing wrong???

Is $wgUseTex or whatever it's called now enabled in LocalSettings.php? Do you receive any error messages on pages where math should appear? Rob Church _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Hi, I seem to have moved the error message by installing teTeX and friends. I still have the following error message Failed to parse (Can't write to or create math output directory): \sin\; \phi = \frac {C}{B} Assuming that the Docs are reasonably accurate the directory ./images/math exists and is rwx and that the image is actually stored in /mediawki/images/math the whole images tree is rwx... What have I forgotten or mis interpreted. I really would like to get this going over the weekend so I can demonstrate it to our our school. Mediawili is without question the premier wiki software, well suited to a range of uses and most usable with interactive learning. John

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John Andrewartha

7:07 a.m.

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 07:05:00 pm Rob Church wrote:

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On 27/09/2007, John Andrewartha <mulga(a)flinders.homeunix.org> wrote:

Hi, I have MW 1.11.0 installed on FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE with latex2e gs dvips and dvipng on Apache 2.2.4_2 The above packages work OK from the keyboard. MW works as intended, the texvc builds, but, still no rendering of math. The .tex file is created in /math/tmp with, no log. It seems I am not calling latex and CO after. I have tried making the path explicit in ./math/render.ml and rebuilt, still no. Also tried is "env latex ....." in render.ml same result. What am I doing wrong???

Is $wgUseTex or whatever it's called now enabled in LocalSettings.php? Do you receive any error messages on pages where math should appear? Rob Church _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

Fixed... Thanks for the assistance, the problem resolved when I removed the debugging from LocalSettings.php. Output was baing dumped in the /tmp dir I also added the following to LocalSettings.php putenv("PATH=".getenv("PATH").":/usr/local/bin"); This was one of the fixes in FreeBSD 5. Also included was the complete removal of tex , latex. dvips and dvipng as packages and replacing them with teTex-base with depencancies. I will write this up and put it on mediawiki.org in the next few days. John

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