Mediawiki: Install Math Support?

#1 rjlittlefield

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Posted 03 April 2005 - 03:27 PM

I did a test install of MediaWiki. Everything seems to work OK, except that I can't get math support to work. I have texvc installed in my testwiki/math, but any attempt to use math mode complains “Failed to parse (PNG conversion failed; check for correct installation of latex, dvips, gs, and convert): a = b/c”.

Documentation at http://cvs.sourcefor.../README?rev=1.5 says "Rasterization is done via LaTeX, dvips, and ImageMagick. These need to be installed and in the PATH: latex, dvips, convert."

Does there need to be some more software installed server-side?

#2 TCH-Bruce

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Posted 03 April 2005 - 05:43 PM

You might want to open a Help Desk ticket and ask one of the tech people.

ImageMagick is installed.

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Posted 07 August 2005 - 05:17 PM

If you don't mind my asking, or if anyone else is in the same boat, has anyone found a solution to getting math to work with MediaWiki? I'm trying to do the same thing, and would appreciate any advice. I've opened a support ticket, but would still like to know of others' experiences.

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#4 rjlittlefield

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Posted 07 August 2005 - 08:16 PM

nortk, on Aug 7 2005, 05:17 PM, said:

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I also opened a support ticket on this, back in April. The conclusion at that time was that MediaWiki required LaTeX and dvips, that LaTeX at least was not included in TotalChoiceHosting's configuration of their Red Hat Linux servers, and that "At the moment, we don't have plans to install it, of course we'll make a note of it. Being a web host, we can't cater for everyone's needs, but we do cater for the majority of users who require basic web hosting." I never did succeed in getting math support in any wiki or bulletin board at TCH. But I would still very much like to get it, so I am happy to see your interest too.

(PS. Norm, check your profile. I tried to reply to your offline email, but it had an "nkrumpe..." address that got rejected as "account expired".)

#5 MathsIsFun

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Posted 26 August 2005 - 05:44 AM

Well, I have just set up MediaWiki, and am going down the same path.

I need Math support and was trying to find how to get Texvc to work.

Has anyone got this to work yet?

(For reference, these are the release notes for texvc: http://sourceforge.n...lease_id=302064 )

This post has been edited by MathsIsFun: 26 August 2005 - 05:48 AM

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