Hey, we support TeX and LaTeX now, too! Ted O'Connor figured this out
on his own, without any support or oversight from me. It just
magically appeared a couple of days ago.
Axel Boldt wrote:
Planetmath has however vastly superior math
typesetting support since they
integrate LaTeX. I am pretty sure that eventually a feature like that
will be available on Wikipedia as well: you type
$$ \sum_{i=1}^n i^2 $$
into a wiki article and TeX will convert the formula behind the scenes
into a graphic to be included in the page. That would also be useful
for chemical structure formulas and drawings. Such a system, called
mathwiki, is running at
http://www.mathcircle.org/cgi-bin/mathwiki.pl.
The code is based on Cunningham's wiki.
For now, you have to wait for Ted to make your image for you, but
someday we will surely find a way to automate this. One problem is
that TeX is not just a typesetting thing, but a programming language,
so blindly letting the webserver interpret it is very dangerous.
I'm sure Ted will look at the mathwiki cite and see how they do it.
Maybe their code is GPL and we can use it.
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