From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: djcb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it? Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:50:30 +0200 Organization: DJCBSoftware Message-ID: <20081129125030.GA32247@mindcrime> References: Reply-To: djcb@djcbsoftware.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227970728 12933 80.91.229.12 (29 Nov 2008 14:58:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:58:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: David Combs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 29 15:59:51 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L6RIS-0000eH-DL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:59:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52593 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L6RHI-0007px-L8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:58:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L6PHb-0006Xx-51 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:50:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L6PHZ-0006XN-Mr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:50:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35091 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L6PHZ-0006XG-9t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:50:45 -0500 Original-Received: from emh04.mail.saunalahti.fi ([62.142.5.110]:37826) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L6PHY-0000Dk-GP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 07:50:44 -0500 Original-Received: from saunalahti-vams (vs3-11.mail.saunalahti.fi [62.142.5.95]) by emh04-2.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with SMTP id 078BF13B9F7; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:50:33 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from emh02.mail.saunalahti.fi ([62.142.5.108]) by vs3-11.mail.saunalahti.fi ([62.142.5.95]) with SMTP (gateway) id A038F508C3E; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:50:33 +0200 Original-Received: from mail.djcbsoftware.nl (a88-113-8-164.elisa-laajakaista.fi [88.113.8.164]) by emh02.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id D11162BD4B; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:50:30 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: by mail.djcbsoftware.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BF1AE69361; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:50:30 +0200 (EET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Jabber: djcb@jabber.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: D09C E664 897D 7D39 5047 A178 E96A C7A1 017D DA3C User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Antivirus: VAMS X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:57:28 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:60227 Archived-At: Hi David, On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, David Combs wrote: > I see this stuff in math articles in wikipedia -- uses some kind > of ascii math-notation. What is it? > > (What is math-ML? Is that it?) > > Anyway, sure looks not fun to enter it by hand -- is there an > emacs .el-file that makes it all simple? Lucky you! I just released texdrive: http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/texdrive It's an emacs minor mode that let's you enter formulae in TeX-notation, and it will generate PNGs from them. This is similar to Wikipedia and some other wikis do. Best wishes, Dirk. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Dirk-Jan C. Binnema http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/ PGP: D09C E664 897D 7D39 5047 A178 E96A C7A1 017D DA3C ------------------------------------------------------