[Mediawiki-l] a few issues

Tue Oct 12 20:28:42 UTC 2004

On 12 Oct 2004, at 14:36, Brinkle, Jason wrote:

> 1.	I can't get the <math> tags to display anything - they just display
> the code I put in.  I have tex packages on my system, but is there 
> something
> I'm missing that needs to parse these tags correctly?

You need TeX packages on your server, but you also need texvc, which is 
included in one of the MediaWiki plugin directories as a source 
distribution. It didn't compile cleanly for me (at Dreamhost - their 
server setup is a little weird sometimes), so I tried downloading this 
precompiled Linux/x86 binary:
	http://download.wikimedia.org/texvc-linux-x86-20040107.tar.gz
...uncompressed into the correct folder, it worked first time.

I can't remember where I came across it, but search around for 'texvc' 
and you'll find copious notes.

-- 
Jonathan Sanderson
'If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.' (Pascal)