On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Asiri Rathnayake < asiri.rathnay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Guillaume Lerouge <guilla...@xwiki.com>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Thomas Mortagne >> <thomas.morta...@xwiki.com>wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 16:14, Sergiu Dumitriu<ser...@xwiki.com> wrote: >> > > Hello Community, >> > > >> > > I have committed today the first implementation of a new XWiki >> feature: >> > > rendering mathematical equations into images. It is available as a >> > > standalone component, and as a syntax 2.0 macro. >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > About the functionality. >> > > >> > > Equations are written in the TeX/LaTeX syntax, which is pretty simple, >> > > and seems to be the syntax of choice for mathematical equations in >> other >> > > wikis, too. The macro can distinguish between inline and block >> equations >> > > and render them accordingly. The output can be either PNG (the default >> > > one), GIF or JPEG. While PNG is definitely the best, I kept the other >> > > two in case somebody really wants to use ancient browsers that only >> > > understand GIF. >> > > >> > > Q: Should I leave just PNG as the output format? >> > >> >> I think keeping PNG as the default format is fine too, most browsers >> accept >> it without complaint. >> >> >> > >> > > >> > > Another feature is that the font size can be specified, in order to >> > > render larger or smaller equations. All the font size commands from >> > > LaTeX (from \tiny to \Huge) have an equivalent. I renamed them to a >> more >> > > easy to understand name (also because the configuration is case >> > > insensitive, so there's no difference between large and LARGE). >> > > >> > > By default images are generated so that the font looks relatively OK >> > > with the default XWiki skin on a 72 or 96 DPI display. They might look >> > > disproportionate with a different DPI, or with a different default >> font >> > > size. >> > > >> > > Q: Is the default DPI setting OK? >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > Second, a few technical details: >> > > >> > > The standalone component is located in >> > > platform/core/xwiki-equation-rendering. I don't know if the name is >> the >> > >> > I don't like this name either "rendering" is too much linked to the >> > rendering module now and this could be used by anyone, not only the >> > equation macro. >> > >> > It's also true that xwiki-equation is not clear enough but you could >> > maybe find something else. >> >> >> xwiki-equation-displayer maybe ? >> > > Few more suggestions: xwiki-equation-plotter, xwiki-formula-plotter, > xwiki-formula > Another idea: xwiki-plotting |-xwiki-plotting-equation |-xwiki-plotting-graph - Asiri _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
