[Mediawiki-l] math support in Mediawiki 1.2.6 -- AMSFonts the culprit?

[Nick Triantos]

On what OS are you running your Wiki?

I have a wiki installation on FreeBSD, and just found that while many 
expressions work ok, some do not.  It looks like texvc is dependent on 
having a package called "amsfonts" (http://www.ams.org) installed, but 
FreeBSD (4.10) does not install nor provide this package.  I'm trying to 
manually install the tarball from ams.org on my server, but so far, with 
no luck.

Maybe you're hitting a similar problem?  (I found this by manually 
running texvc from the cmd-line, and looking at the .log output file)

cheers,
-Nick

Erik Moeller wrote:

>Brion-
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>>The following commands must be available in the default execution path
>>(PATH environment variable):
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>>   latex
>>   dvips
>>   convert
>>   gs
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>>and anything else that they depend on that I might not know about. In
>>particular ask that dvips is installed, since you didn't mention that
>>earlier.
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>And as I just found out through two hours of pain, GhostScript in certain  
>versions doesn't work with ImageMagick at all. See this bug report:
>http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/bug-gs/2002-July/001451.html
>I used an older version (8.0 something) and it still didn't work. Only  
>going back to 7.05 did the trick.
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>One thing that helps in debugging is to edit render.ml in math/, remove  
>the "/dev/null" redirections, recompile and test on the commandline  
>according to the README. Then you should see exactly what goes wrong  
>where.
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>texvc is really quite terrible when it comes to error messages.
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>Regards,
>
>Erik
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