On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Asiri Rathnayake < asiri.rathnay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Asiri Rathnayake < > asiri.rathnay...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Guillaume Lerouge >> <guilla...@xwiki.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Thomas Mortagne >>> <thomas.morta...@xwiki.com>wrote: >>> >>> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 16:14, Sergiu Dumitriu<ser...@xwiki.com> >>> wrote: >>> > > Hello Community, >>> > > >>> > > I have committed today the first implementation of a new XWiki >>> feature: >>> > > rendering mathematical equations into images. It is available as a >>> > > standalone component, and as a syntax 2.0 macro. >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > About the functionality. >>> > > >>> > > Equations are written in the TeX/LaTeX syntax, which is pretty >>> simple, >>> > > and seems to be the syntax of choice for mathematical equations in >>> other >>> > > wikis, too. The macro can distinguish between inline and block >>> equations >>> > > and render them accordingly. The output can be either PNG (the >>> default >>> > > one), GIF or JPEG. While PNG is definitely the best, I kept the other >>> > > two in case somebody really wants to use ancient browsers that only >>> > > understand GIF. >>> > > >>> > > Q: Should I leave just PNG as the output format? >>> > >>> >>> I think keeping PNG as the default format is fine too, most browsers >>> accept >>> it without complaint. >>> >>> >>> > >>> > > >>> > > Another feature is that the font size can be specified, in order to >>> > > render larger or smaller equations. All the font size commands from >>> > > LaTeX (from \tiny to \Huge) have an equivalent. I renamed them to a >>> more >>> > > easy to understand name (also because the configuration is case >>> > > insensitive, so there's no difference between large and LARGE). >>> > > >>> > > By default images are generated so that the font looks relatively OK >>> > > with the default XWiki skin on a 72 or 96 DPI display. They might >>> look >>> > > disproportionate with a different DPI, or with a different default >>> font >>> > > size. >>> > > >>> > > Q: Is the default DPI setting OK? >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > Second, a few technical details: >>> > > >>> > > The standalone component is located in >>> > > platform/core/xwiki-equation-rendering. I don't know if the name is >>> the >>> > >>> > I don't like this name either "rendering" is too much linked to the >>> > rendering module now and this could be used by anyone, not only the >>> > equation macro. >>> > >>> > It's also true that xwiki-equation is not clear enough but you could >>> > maybe find something else. >>> >>> >>> xwiki-equation-displayer maybe ? >>> >> >> Few more suggestions: xwiki-equation-plotter, xwiki-formula-plotter, >> xwiki-formula >> > > Another idea: > > xwiki-plotting > |-xwiki-plotting-equation > |-xwiki-plotting-graph > Sorry, I meant xwiki-plotting-chart not "graph". Anyway, I think both are same :-? > > - Asiri > > _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
