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@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] TeX, version 4

--- Tomasz Wegrzanowski taw@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 07:02:34PM -0800, Axel Boldt wrote:

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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