stacyprowell.com » jsmath http://stacyprowell.com/blog Ugh, Stacy's talking again... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:01:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 WordPress and jsMath http://stacyprowell.com/blog/2009/04/20/wordpress-and-jsmath/ http://stacyprowell.com/blog/2009/04/20/wordpress-and-jsmath/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:00:22 +0000 stacy http://stacyprowell.com/blog/?p=145 Well… I’ve been using jsMath on my Wiki, and now I’m keen to use it on my blog.  There does not seem to be a WordPress plugin explicitly for jsMath (if anyone knows of one, please let me know), but you don’t need one. Using jsMath from WordPress is actually easy via a different plugin.

The plugin is WP Hooks. This is a plugin that lets you add content to the page head, and that’s just what we want!

  1. Download and install jsMath on your local server.
  2. Download, install, and activate WP Hooks in WordPress.
  3. Configure this and add the following to the header (change the path to point to your local installation of jsMath):
    <SCRIPT SRC="jsMath/easy/load.js"></SCRIPT>
  4. Start writing math on pages.

This seems to work fine. Here’s an example. \[\int \sin x\ dx= -\cos\ x + C\]

This was created as a display equation via writing \[\int \sin x\ dx= -\cos\ x + C\] in the page.

Update: As pointed out in the comments, you need to install the fonts on the client (browser) side for things to look really nice and for math rendering to be fast; otherwise you get a warning and bitmap fonts.  It’s really easy; the instructions are here.

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