On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Angus Leeming wrote:

> Christian Ridderström wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I thought it might be nice to be able to insert formulas in the wiki
> > pages, so I've hacked together something here:
> > 
> > http://www.lyx.org/~chr/wiki/pmwiki.php?pagename=Math.Math
> > 
> > which does something similar to what latex-preview, i.e. this markup
> > 
> > [[$ x = y + z $]]
> > 
> > causes a .tex-file to be created that will contain
> > 
> > $ x = y + z $
> > 
> > and latex then compiles this to produce a .dvi-file that dvipng
> > finally converts into a .png-file. (The formulas and images are
> > cached for performance reasons).
> 
> Anything non-trivial won't compile. You'll need all of the stuff that 
> comes before \begin{document}.

I think trivial things will go a long way... see the examples for 
mimetex that JMarc showed me:

        http://www.forkosh.com/mimetexmanual.html#examples

These are the kind of expressions I'm thinking --- not general latex 
expressions.

> > Can I filter the latex-code somehow to make it safe enough, i.e. so
> > safe that we feel it can be left running on wiki.lyx.org?

> That is all orthogonal to the security implications, which presumably 
> are no larger than the existing ability of any user to 
> 'rm *'.

This is for the wiki pages, so the users are *anyone*... 

/Christian

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Christian Ridderström                           http://www.md.kth.se/~chr



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