On 04/15/2010 11:51 AM, Marine JULIAN wrote: > Hi, > > I have some questions about the formula macro. I would like to test the > native method and the MathTran based method but I'm not sure to understand > how to choose and to use those rendered methods...
Changing WEB-INF/xwiki.properties is all that's needed on the XWiki part. For the native renderer, you need to install a LaTeX package and ImageMagick. I recommend the TeXLive distribution, see http://www.tug.org/texlive/windows.html > Before beginning, I have the XWiki Enterprise standalone version (for > Windows) and I don't install external programs for latex rendered. Does it > mean I use the SnuggleTex method ? Yes, SnuggleTeX is used if no support for LaTeX is found on the system. > Thus, to try the native method, I add in in the file > WEB-INF/xwiki.properties the line macro.formula.renderer = native. I > understand that this method uses external programs but which one do I have ? > Is there a particular installation to do in order to connect them with my > XWiki installation ? Or do I have to configure the link/connection between > XWiki and those external tools ? XWiki relies on the operating system to find the right executables, it just calls "latex", "dvips" and "convert". So, you should install TeX Live and ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/) and make sure that these executables are on the system's search path. > For the MathTran based method, my questions are pretty much the same... To > resume, what do I have to do to test this method ? Do I have to install some > particular programs ? Just enable it in xwiki.properties. It relies on an external service which is used via HTTP, so make sure the server can make external HTTP connections. > Finaly, I would like to know if the marco can renderer other latex markup > than "formula" (for instance \section or \subsection) ? Indeed, I try with > my actual configuration to display a matrix (with the code below) but it > doesn't work... It only renders my matrix in line. Is it the behaviour > expected ? No, it only allows mathematical formulas to be rendered, and only the standard LaTeX expressions + some ams packages when using the native or mathtran renderers. Things added by other packages can't be used. bmatrix and vmatrix are from the amsmath package, so the default SnuggleTeX renderer can't handle it. >> \begin{bmatrix} >> 0& \cdots& 0 \\ >> \vdots& \ddots& \vdots \\ >> 0& \cdots& 0 >> \end{bmatrix} >> > and > >> \begin{vmatrix} >> x& y \\ >> z& v >> \end{vmatrix} >> -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
