Comments on: LaTeX in WordPress

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 21 May 2007 11:58:05 +0000

Does that mean that Dreamhost.com has LaTeX installed or is that only on dedicated servers? I’m sure that many users would be interested in a host that offers LaTeX.

By: pelesl

pelesl — Mon, 21 May 2007 02:54:45 +0000

I just started hosting a series of blogs for my projects through Dreamhost.com, which makes it a snap to install WordPress. I searched for how to put LaTeX in entires and ended up here. I used your script and it worked on the first try (well, second, but the first time I pointed it to the wrong directory). Fantastic work.

Also it was great to find out about the self-plotting function. Fascinating.

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:41:10 +0000

I… I think I love you. This is incredibly handy; thanks!

By: GÞB

GÞB — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:22:07 +0000

Thanks — updated.

By: Chris Williams

Chris Williams — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:49:28 +0000

The script currently fails to fetch the plugin. The path to the wp-latexrender zip file seems to have changed from
http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/uploads/wp-latexrender.zip
to
http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wp-latexrender.zip

By: Adeel Khan

Adeel Khan — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:14:23 +0000

Suresh: the drop-shadow is probably caused by something in your theme’s CSS. Maybe you could post a link…

By: GÞB

GÞB — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:39:24 +0000

No, I don’t know what might cause a drop-shadow … does it look like that in all browsers? Can you post a link to it? My first thought is browser weirdness.

By: Suresh

Suresh — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:28:43 +0000

Hi,
thanks for the script. One question I have is that when I finally render latex, I don’t get an inline image like yours, rather I get a “raised” image with a drop shadow, which is ok, but doesn’t look right for inline things. Do you know what might be causing that ?

By: LightShadow

LightShadow — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:31:30 +0000

Steve, Thank you very much, It works !!

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:58:31 +0000

I agree that doubling slashes must be done by bbPress, presumably for use in its database. If you can’t stop bbPress doing it then in latex.php try:
after the line
$latex_formula = $tex_matches[1][$i];
add
$latex_formula = stripslashes($latex_formula);
and see what happens.
Alternatively (but not both at the same time ) in the same place you could try
$latex_formula = str_replace(“\\”,”\”,$latex_formula);

By: GÞB

GÞB — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:37:26 +0000

I just made the installation script. You could try asking the latexrender author, Steve Mayer, but my (blind) guess is that the backslashes are doubled by bbPress itself, not by latexrender. You probably need to find a way to tell bbPress not to do that --- or add something to latexrender to unescape the text. It is probably not too hard, if you are willing to get into it.

By: LightShadow

LightShadow — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 05:37:14 +0000

Hello, Sir
I try to implement wp-latexrender to bbpress by rewrite some parameters. But latexrender alwaly recognize
“\ ” as ”\\” for an example if I type [tex]\Sigma[/tex] then the rendered tex file will show
…..
$\\Sigma$

Can you take a glance about that ?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:52:16 +0000

I am the author. Suman: it looks like the gif is not being created. If you aren’t getting any other error messages it could be because ImageMagick can’t find Ghostscript. Have a look at http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/index.php?p=34 for how to put this right.

By: GÞB

GÞB — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:51:35 +0000

Nope, no clue, sorry. :) I just made the installation script; you could try asking the author.

By: Suman

Suman — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:49:09 +0000

I am getting the following error message! Any clue?

Warning: copy(a25f9ada91d715ec1a4c89d961a729ff.gif): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/sumansan/public_html/dynamicequations-org/wp-content/plugins/latexrender/class.latexrender.php on line 314

Warning: unlink(/home/sumansan/www/dynamicequations-org/wp-content/plugins/latexrender/tmp/a25f9ada91d715ec1a4c89d961a729ff.gif): No such file or directory in /home/sumansan/public_html/dynamicequations-org/wp-content/plugins/latexrender/class.latexrender.php on line 338