WikiTeX, a MediaWiki extension for rendering LaTeX and other graphical elements.

Dr. R. Rajaraman | 7 Feb 2006 13:04

wikitex and windows

Hai,
I just installed mediawiki for intranet use on a windows 2003 box 
running apache+php+mysql.
mediawiki is working fine. But I have trouble with wikitex. when I run 
some math code, I am getting a tmp file wik random name without 
extension in "tmp" folder and the browser returns with a blank page. 
Examining the file generated looks fine as a valid tex file. latex & 
imagemagick already installed and tested ok. Is there any windows 
specific hack I need to to do? I saw a message on the wikitex 
documentation home page that next version will include the  hack. Mine 
is stable version. will it work if I take the cvs version? I cannot 
switch over to linux box at present. Thanks in advance - rajaraman

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Peter Danenberg | 10 Feb 2006 02:21

Re: wikitex and windows

> Is there any windows specific hack I need to to do?

     I'm going to attach a message, Dr. Rajaraman, from Sal-
vatore Ingala, who actually got WikiTeX working on  Windows;
would  you  mind  confirming whether his directions work for
you?

     See attached.

Best, Peter

>      Thanks  for  the  message,  Salvatore; someone else was
> asking about Windows as  well,  and  it  appears  as  though
> everything which WikiTeX needs is available on Windows:
>
>      dvipng        http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvipng/
>      LaTeX         http://www.miktex.org/
>      ImageMagick   http://www.imagemagick.org/
>      bash          http://www.cygwin.com/

Well, I was missing bash :)
But this wasn't the only problem...

> It's simply a matter of someone putting everything together.

Yeah, et the very end I succeeded in making it work, but I had to modify
several things:

- In several places, I had to change the '/' used in the paths with '\\'

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