Re: [phpslash-users] Upgrading and plugins

[Joe S. <jo...@ph...>]

on 03/29/2005 02:09 PM Matthew Leingang said the following:
> Hi,
> 
> Joe, your recent e-mail got me interested in exploring the PSL 0.8 world.
> 
> It turned out I was already using 0.8alpha.  How hard will it be to make the
> switch to 0.8?  Any DB schema changes?  Is it worth it?
> 

I don't think there are any db schema changes.  There was some default 
stuff changed.

Probably worth it though.  There was some bugfixes before release.


> Also, maybe you can describe this plugin stuff.  I downloaded the textile
> plugin and copied all the files into the psl tree.  When I created a new
> story I expected to see textile under the input or output filter fields.
> But those menus haven't changed.
> 


Look in config.php for story_options.  Then they should show up.

> Has anyone written a plugin to generate pictures of equations from LaTeX
> code?  If not, I could try this.  Would I have to alter an existing plugin
> or could I create a new one (in other words, would it be possible to have a
> story be parsed for LaTeX markup, then run thru textile?
> 

There isn't any pipeline like thing for plugins yet.  If you see an easy 
way go for it.

I think moodle and/or tiki has a LateX filter that could be modified easily.


Joe

> Thanks,
> Matt
>