[Wikipedia-l] Question about current code

[tarquin]

Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:

>I want to add support for TeX mode to Wikipedia script.
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>I wrote a program which takes TeX code on stdin,
>validates and standarizes it (so that "x+y" and "x + y" don't have to be
>generated twice), and even has some extensions ("%" -> "\%"),
>checks if given image already exists, and if i doesn't, passes it to latex,
>dvips and convert to get nice antialiased png file.
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>How to integrate it with Wikipedia script ?
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See http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_Markup for previous discussion 
on this -- the general idea last time this came up was for markup like:

[[math:someTexcode]]

the PNG would be cached until the Tex markup is changed

>I'm also thinking that some similar solution should be added for
>chemical reactions.
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yay! :-)


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