Please, let's do it Axel's way. He contributes most of the math articles. Besides,
I also want to be able to edit a math equation directly in my browser.
Ed Poor
-----Original Message-----
From: Axel Boldt [mailto:axelboldt@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 12:47 PM
To: wikitech-l(a)wikipedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] TeX, version 4
--- Tomasz Wegrzanowski <taw(a)users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 07:02:34PM -0800, Axel Boldt
wrote:
TeX is not
just for math nerds.
There are several powerful macro packages for creating all sorts of
diagrams, flow charts and graphics. These would provide huge
benefits to lots of Wikipedians outside of math.
You will still be able to compile them on your computer and upload,
just like you can do it now.
Sure, but I don't want to, because it's not the wiki way: people who
intend to improve my work are then required to install the necessary
software and recreate the work from scratch. It's clearly much more
user friendly to allow direct editing of the work's description in the
browser.
My point was that you want to give up this advantage for the goal of
output format independence, and that I don't agree with these
priorities.
Axel