On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is now (apparently!) possible to include arbitrary LaTeX equations > in any web service: blogs, wikis, plain html, and even mime-email. > > The stunt is to build an image tag in html which includes the LaTeX to > be rendered: > http://www.mayer.dial.pipex.com/tex.htm > http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/ > An example given in the above is: > <img src="http://www.forkosh.dreamhost.com/mathtex.cgi?c= > \sqrt{a^2+b^2}" /> > which renders a LaTeX image inline. > > The good news is that it works anywhere an <img> tag can be used. The > bad news is that it is a "dead" image. But again, the good news is > the "LaTeX markup" is still available in the markup too (in the <img> > tag), thus can be used by other users via grabbing the original source > and pasting into other documents. > Thanks, Owen. This is a very useful reference. One usage note. This HTML causes a server hit on www.forkosh.dreamhost.com and generats a new image EACH TIME IT IS REFERENCED. For efficiencies sake it would be much better to generate the image once, save it locally and reference the generated image from your page. You could include the markup in the "title" or "longdesc" attribute (but NOT in "alt"). On my Linux system I used "wget" to retrieve the rendered image and save it to a file.
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