WikiMatrix / Choosing a wiki: latex and formulas?

mcastel · 2009-09-26 16:36:58

Hello,

I would like to transfer to a wiki format the content of an astrophysical book for which I own the rights. Since my source files are in LaTeX (and as you can understand they also contain math formulas) I am wondering if there is a wiki engine that makes me possible (not to say.. easy) to include latex files and managing math formulas.

I am experimenting now with dokuwiki which I like a lot, but notwithstanding variuos researches, I was not able to find a way to automatically transfer the source latex files in wiki format.

Do you know if it's possibile with some other wiki engine?

Thanks a lot in advance,

Marco Castellani

Panchobook · 2009-09-26 20:50:47

mcastel wrote:
Hello,

I would like to transfer to a wiki format the content of an astrophysical book for which I own the rights. Since my source files are in LaTeX (and as you can understand they also contain math formulas) I am wondering if there is a wiki engine that makes me possible (not to say.. easy) to include latex files and managing math formulas.

Do you know if it's possibile with some other wiki engine?

Hi, Marco,

We use ProjectForum to post or compose documents with LaTeX-like functionality. The conversion is not automatic, but it is not hard either. Check out http://demo.projectforum.com/math/Home .

Good Luck!
Pancho

jvelo · 2009-09-29 14:49:32

Hello Marco,

Since its version 1.9.3, XWiki provides a Formula wiki rendering macro, which allows you to write LaTeX content the following way in your wiki pages :

Code:

{{formula}}\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac{1}{n^2}=\frac{\pi^2}{6}{{/formula}}

This macro, as any other wiki rendering macro, remains editable with the WYSIWYG editor. You can find out more about it, including screenshots, on the {{formula}} macro documentation page :
http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Ma … rmulaMacro

You can download and try out the latest version of XWiki (XWiki 2.0 at the time of this writing) at :
http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download

Regards,
Jerome

PS: disclaimer - I'm a developer on the XWiki project.

jvelo · 2009-09-29 14:52:41

Note that you should also be able to attach your LaTeX files to wiki pages as regular attachments and display their content using the {{formula}} macro with little effort.

(You'll need for that to write a macro that retrieve's the attachment content and pass it to a formula macro).

TheSheep · 2010-03-20 09:17:24

You can put formulas on any wiki (or blog) using one of the formula-rendering services available: http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/?p=59

#1 2009-09-26 16:36:58

Choosing a wiki: latex and formulas?

#2 2009-09-26 20:50:47

Re: Choosing a wiki: latex and formulas?

mcastel wrote:

#3 2009-09-29 14:49:32

Re: Choosing a wiki: latex and formulas?

Code:

#4 2009-09-29 14:52:41

Re: Choosing a wiki: latex and formulas?

#5 2010-03-20 09:17:24

Re: Choosing a wiki: latex and formulas?

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