On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:52:33PM -0500, Dale Schumacher wrote: > 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.
If you're going to do that, why not automate the whole process by using LaTeX2HTML (or l2h, which by some accounts is better)? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
