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. Continue reading »
I used to have a site that used LaTeX to render equations. This worked pretty well, except that I didn’t have LaTeX installed on the server. It turns out that you can do pretty well without it.
There’s an excellent program called mimeTeX that renders math without a TeX installation. I used it with Drupal and DruTeX. Now I’m not using Drupal… so I need to find another way to display math. Oh, mimeTeX still works, but you have to explicitly encode the link. I’m way too lazy to do that.
Update: I’ve been experimenting with using [ tex ]…[ /tex ] from the mimeTex plugin to WordPress. It’s working now, but I needed to do two things to make it work.
I also had to go into the cache folder and delete all the files that were created during the process, so I could see the effect of the changes. But now it works!
Here’s an example of an equation array. Note that you need to use & to insert the required ampersand delimiters.
[ tex ]\begin{eqnarray}
\overset{*}{\triangleright}\!(uvx) & = & \triangleright\!(\overset{*}{\triangleright}\!(uv)x) \\
& = & \triangleright\!(\overset{*}{\triangleright}\!(\overset{*}{\triangleright}\!(u)v)x) \\
& = & \overset{*}{\triangleright}\!(\overset{*}{\triangleright}\!(u)vx)
\end{eqnarray}[ /tex ]
So… shouldn’t everyone just install LaTeX by default? Shouldn’t all CMS ship with some math solution? Of course! 