Re: [Tikiwiki-devel] FORMULA plugin?

[Jean-Marc L. <jea...@gm...>]

I know about LaTeX but I don't use any of these plugins, so I might
get it all wrong.

I feel that calling your plugin "math" would be confusing if all it does is
use LaTeX. People will expect to do calculations, graphs, etc. We
might want to reserve "math" for when someone wants to link with mathlab :)

Why not call it "latex" ? People who need it will understand what it is about.
People who don't know about latex might not find it but they would probably not
use it anyway.

Again, I might totally misunderstand what the plugin is about.

Cheers,
Jyhem

On 2/26/08, Christopher E Cramer <cc...@si...> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
>  We are working on a wiki that will primarily be used by scientists and
>  engineers.  For a number of reasons, we chose TikiWiki as the platform,
>  now we're looking at some of the specifics.
>
>  One of the features we need is the ability to render mathematical
>  formulas.  It seems that there is a plugin to do this in mods.tw.o.  The
>  plugin is called formula and makes some calls directly to LaTeX without
>  sanitizing the input (which is a pretty big security risk).  I've fixed
>  the plugin so that it does check for bad input (basically, I'm just
>  calling the LaTeX Render Class used in several other projects).
>
>  So here's the question.  When I look at a clean install of tiki, there
>  is a formula plugin that is just a call out to tiki-graph_formula.  So
>  there seems to be a name space conflict between the formula plugin on
>  mods.tw.o and the formula plugin that comes out of tiki.  Do folks have
>  any thoughts on the best way to clean that up?
>
>  I *think* it makes sense to call the plugin to render mathematical
>  formulas "math".  To leave the formula plugin to call graph_formula and
>  to clean up the listing on mods.tw.o.
>
>  Of course, I could easily be missing something here.  Any thoughts or
>  suggestions?
>
>  Thanks,
>  Chris
>
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