Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I was missing the preview-latex package which is required by the blahtex option --use-preview-package. The solution in Gentoo is to "emerge dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra" which contains the preview package.
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Jacques Distler <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 30, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Peter Bleszynski wrote: > >> I am trying to display an equation using Markdown+blahtex/PNG in >> Instiki 0.18. Blahtex is compiled from blahtexml-0.7-corrected-src. >> >> I tried >> $ \begin{aligned} ... \end{aligned} $ >> >> ... >> >> RuntimeError (No depth element in: >> <blahtex> >> <png> >> <error><id>CannotRunLatex</id><message>Cannot run latex</message></error> >> </png> >> </blahtex> >> >> Am I using the wrong syntax? >> >> I'm using Gentoo and TeX Live 2008 is installed. >> >> /usr/local/bin/blahtex is in the command path. >> >> Running blahtex from the command line works. The following simple >> test produces correct PNG output. >> # echo '\sqrt{x^2+\alpha}' | blahtex --png > > I believe the options (set in > vendor/plugins/maruku/lib/maruku/ext/math/mathml_engines/blahtex.rb) are: > > blahtex --png --use-preview-package --shell-dvipng 'dvipng -D 200' > > Does that work? > > I'm not really the expert on the blahtex filter. I'll ask Ari Stern, who is. > _______________________________________________ > Instiki-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/instiki-users > _______________________________________________ Instiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/instiki-users
