https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17465
--- Comment #2 from Tim Landscheidt <[email protected]> 2012-01-17 14:38:36 UTC --- A few issues that I noted while playing around some at https://github.com/scfc/mediawiki-math-extension (ATM ~ 90/1000 deviations in DVIs): - Despite being one of its purposes, there are no testcases that "rogue" TeX commands (I/O, "\catcode", etc.) are actually rejected. - texvc not only validates the input and generates HTML, but also /transforms/ the TeX source: - Some functions are aliased ("\uarr" => "\uparrow"). - White space is added and deleted. - "M^{II}_3N_2" gets rearranged to "M_{3}^{{II}}N_{2}". IMHO the transformations are bad (TM): - A reader cannot simply copy and paste apparent TeX from a wiki source to other applications. - An editor cannot simply copy and paste apparent TeX from a TeX source to MediaWiki. - It lays an unnecessary burden on the usage of other renderers and editors. For example, MathJax doesn't recognize "\uarr", but only "\uparrow". So I think we should settle for a purely validating parser. Omitting the transformations will of course also change the output and thus the outputhash column. So a migration plan would probably have to include expiring PNGs generated before the deployment. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
