Plugins item #1586950, was opened at 2006-10-30 03:03 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by jikmo You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=390395&aid=1586950&group_id=235
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Benjamin Moody (floppusmaximus) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Instant Math (LaTeX) plugin Initial Comment: This is a plugin which uses LaTeX to render math expressions in IM and chat conversations. It has been inspired by Kirill Zorin's TeXIM plugin (to which, great thanks; I have borrowed ideas from it, and its source was very helpful in understanding the weird intricacies of using images in Gaim) and also by the KopeTeX plugin for Kopete. It supports both Gaim 1.x and 2.x (it has been tested mostly with Gaim 1.5.0, 2.0.0-beta3 and beta4.) It is intended to be compatible with both TeXIM and KopeTeX, and supports all three existing syntaxes: KopeTeX-style "$$MATH$$", TeXIM-style "\tex TEXT", and the older-TeXIM-style "/tex TEXT". KopeTeX-style equations -- the most friendly syntax, in my opinion -- can be embedded in longer messages (up to a maximum of 16 equations per message.) Two different security models are supported: - a simple blacklist of forbidden commands (I have collected a list of these from various sources; I'm no TeX guru, and I'd really appreciate comments from someone who is.) - the highly-secure (though more limited in functionality) 'texvc' tool from the MediaWiki project, which parses everything beforehand and checks all commands against a whitelist. In addition, the plugin allows you to enable/disable LaTeX on a per-conversation basis. LaTeX is enabled by default for all conversations, but you can change this through the preferences. Finally, this plugin is somewhat more customizable than either of its predecessors. DEPENDENCIES: - LaTeX - dvipng (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/dvipng/) - texvc (optional; part of the MediaWiki package from http://www.mediawiki.org/) INSTALLATION: An autoconf/libtool-based package; if you've installed Gaim from source or you have the 'gaim-devel' / 'gaim-dev' package, simply do a './configure; make; make install', or 'make install-user' to install to your home directory. If you do not have the development files installed and you don't want to install them (e.g., you don't have root access and don't want to fool around with installation prefixes) then: - Download, extract and configure the sources for your version of Gaim - Configure the plugin using './configure --with-gaim-source=/path/to/gaim-X.Y.Z', compile and install as usual WINDOWS USERS: I have not tested this plugin at all under Windows; I don't own a Windows machine. However, I see no reason why it should not work. If you are a Windows user and willing to test, drop me a line. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke D (jikmo) Date: 2007-04-11 01:18 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=866096 Originator: NO I am a Windows user. I compiled and tested out your plugin, and it's working quite nicely. Unfortunately, there are a few problems; in Windows, whenever g_spawn is called (3 times per LaTeX processing), a console window opens. It seems that this is due to Gaim being compiled with an old version of GTK since the problem seems to have been fixed in 2004/2005. However, recompiling Gaim and your plugin with the latest GTK and glib does not seem to do anything. There is another LaTeX plugin for Gaim called gaim-latex that gets around this by calling a Windows API function to spawn a new process. It should be possible to use the Windows API to call the spawn the process without opening a console, and it might be possible to alter the code and compile it with the latest version of glib so that glib handles it correctly. Unfortunately, I do not know much about either the Windows API or GTK/glib, so I cannot offer any suggestions at this time. The other problem is that there there is no error stream in Windows, so error messages are printed straight to the output. This does not seem to cause any problems other than that error messages cannot be displayed when they are turned on. When I get a chance, I will try to look into this, but I cannot promise anything. By the way, a friend of mine is using the plugin in Linux and the \tex and /tex directives do not seem to work, only $$, which means that he can only use the plugin for math. Also, if you update the plugin, could you add a way to set the maximum message length in the settings? The current maximum is a little low. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Benjamin Moody (floppusmaximus) Date: 2006-12-05 01:13 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=317095 Originator: YES Thanks! I sent you an email on the subject. Something is broken with this file attachment thingy -- I don't know if it's a problem on my end or SF's, but 8 bytes of garbage seemingly got added to the end of the file. There's nothing missing, though. With GNU tar and gzip, at least, you can still extract everything just fine. Sorry about that, folks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Ankit (rageboy04) Date: 2006-11-25 17:19 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1276942 Originator: NO Hey, I'm a Windows user and am willing to test, but I would prefer if someone else compiled to the Windows DLL for me as I'm not completely comfortable with it, though I would probably be able to figure out how and do it if need be. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=390395&aid=1586950&group_id=235 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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