On 29 June 2010 19:58, Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Ilmari Karonen <nos...@vyznev.net> wrote: >> I'm not familiar enough with the texvc code to know what it would take >> to add support for the algorithmic package (and I'm not sure if anyone >> really is; that code is notoriously low on active maintainers). > > It should be trivial. Just add a usepackage in the right place and > whitelist the commands. Of course, this will cause a fatal error on > any system where the algorithmic package isn't installed, but it > shouldn't be too hard to set it up so that this is only triggered in > equations that actually try to use the package -- there's already > something like that for AMS. >
I'd been hoping to do similar things in the next few days, as part of a clean up of the trivial bugs that have accumulated for texvc - adding new features is trivial, it's just if we want to change old ones that https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16719 starts to get in the way. Agreeing with Ilmari Karonen, I'd hugely prefer not to use LaTeX for algorithms, there are a large number of programming languages with defined (or at least reasonably widely agreed upon) semantics, all of which can be beautified by GeSHi, using a custom pseudo-code and then converting the text to an image seems like a huge step backwards in terms of making something easily readable by the largest number of people. Many modern (i.e. post 1990) languages are comparable to pseudo-code in conciseness, and it's usually possible to write algorithms that don't make use of less standard features of such languages. Conrad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
