From: Brion Vibber Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 19:25:01 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * (bug 6696) readme notes from taw X-Git-Tag: 1.31.0-rc.0~56237 X-Git-Url: https://git.cyclocoop.org/%27.WWW_URL.%27admin/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b9e6cf41b76d452d8049d3d7a0eb27aba666c0a2;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git * (bug 6696) readme notes from taw --- diff --git a/math/README b/math/README index e58cbf049e..d36e09c7fa 100644 --- a/math/README +++ b/math/README @@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ The makefile requires GNU make. Rasterization is done via LaTeX, dvips, and ImageMagick. These need to be installed and in the PATH: latex, dvips, convert +AMS* packages for LaTeX also need to be installed. Without AMS* some +equations will render correctly while others won't render. +Most distributions of TeX already contain AMS*. +In Debian/Ubuntu you need to install tetex-extra. + To work properly with rendering non-ASCII Unicode characters, a supplemental TeX package is needed (cjk-latex in Debian) @@ -92,6 +97,15 @@ Ensure that the temporary and math directories exist and can be written to by the user account the web server runs under; if you don't control the server, you may have to make them world-writable. +If some equations render correctly while others don't, you probably don't have +AMS* packages for LaTeX installed. Most distributions of TeX come with AMS*. +In Debian/Ubuntu AMS* is in tetex-extra package. +To check if that is the problem you can try those two equations: + x + y + x \implies y +The first uses only standard LaTeX, while the second uses symbol \implies from AMS*. +If the first renders, but the second doesn't, you need to install AMS*. + == Hacking == Before you start hacking on the math package its good to know the workflow,