Hey folks, remember this discussion from a few months ago?
I've gone ahead and implemented the initial part for 1.19 (disabled the
math rendering options other than PNG and source), and opened another bug
entry with some details on how to add the baseline shifting that should
make PNGs nicer inline:
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32694>
While I'm mucking about in there, I'd like to note that I'm also interested
in making higher-resolution images, suitable both for printing and for
high-density screens (iPhone 4 being the best-known example in use in the
wild). Generating another PNG or two should be easy; getting them to
display reliably might be slightly funkier. :)
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=32696>
When I've got something working for that I'll check around to make sure it
works consistently for people and doesn't break any tools.
-- brion
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
Ok, I've set up an RfC page on
MediaWiki.org
which'll be easier to comment
on for folks not on the lists:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Reduce_math_rendering_pr…
and added some links, comments & requests for further feedback at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics#RFC:_Sh…
I'd also appreciate if folks who know some of the math-heavy editors who
work on other projects -- other languages, or wikibooks/wikiversity etc --
can poke around and get more feedback.
In addition to the immediate issue of tweaking the rendering modes,
there's been some good feedback about related issues such as the lack of
proper baseline alignment of the math PNG images, which should be taken
into account for the next set of improvements on Math -- improving or
replacing texvc with another tool, maybe dusting off Blahtex and making
sure it does everything we need, etc.
-- brion