Extension:TeX Editor

MediaWiki extensions manual

The TEX Box Release status: unmaintained
Implementation	Page action
Description	a tex editor for mathematical formulae
Latest version	tex editor (0.4) 2007 (19-01-2007)
MediaWiki	1.9.0
License	LGPL 2.1
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The TeX Editor allows an editor to display mathematical figures and formulae in mediwiki by using TeX expressions.

Features

• You can edit TeX expressions representing mathematical formulae
  • in a textarea input field and directly see the result in an AJAX preview box.
• There are configurable, clickable icons for inserting predefined TeX expressions
  • defined on your user page "User:yourname/TEX/Favorites" (if available); or
  • defined on the page "TEX/Favorites" (if available); or
  • defined by the code.
• There is a special page: "The TEX Box"; as well as
• a new toolbar icon $\textstyle \sum$ for opening the TeX editor when editing a normal wiki page (provided you allowed popup windows to be opened), formulae including the math-tags can be directly insterted into the editor area.

Installation

• enable math support on your wiki (see the README file in the math directory)
• create a new file "SpecialTexbox.php" in the directory "includes" of your mediawiki installation
• copy the code from Extension:TEX Editor/Code into the file "SpecialTexbox.php"
• add these three lines to "LocalSettings.php"

 require_once("SpecialTexbox.php");
 $wgAjaxExportList[] = 'wfSajaxMath';
 $wgUseAjax = true;

• create a new page "TEX/Favorites" on your wiki and copy the content of Extension:TEX Editor/TEX/Favorites
• open the page "MediaWiki:Texbox" on your wiki and insert the text "The TEX Box"
• go to the special page "The TEX Box" and give it a try (The first load of the page may take some time.)
• open any wiki page for editing and click on the new toolbar icon $\textstyle \sum$

Tested on

• Firefox, IE
• MediaWiki 1.9.0

Screen shots

The special page mode.

The popup window mode.