- The filters now use mimetex version 1.61, which supports color
- The converted images are now displayed vertically aligned in the middle by default, but the default can be overriden by prepending align=bottom or align=top to the Tex or Algebra expression.
- Improved debugging of problems with the algebra2tex.pl Perl script in the algebradebug.php debugger.
- A minor problem with XHTML 1.0 nonconformity has been fixed.
Update to Tex and Algebra filters
Number of replies: 5
I've just posted an update to the Tex and Algebra text filters to the CVS. Among the improvements are:
Re: Update to Tex and Algebra filters
That sounds great! I'm somewhat new to this arena so this may be seem a silly question, for which I apologize. What is the normal course of events and time before this will be available as a stable release?
Re: Update to Tex and Algebra filters
After upgrading to Moodle 1.4.3 and moving to another linux (Suse) on a different machine, Tex works fine, but algebra is broken. These updates seems not to help.
Debugger info:
show db entry: DB cache_filters entry for sin(z)/(x^2+y^2) not found
first stage: No text output available
second stage: No text output available
show image:
The shell command
returned status =
mimetex executable not found!
Image not found!
Re: Update to Tex and Algebra filters
Looks like wrong permissions problem. Try
chmod 755 algebra2tex.pl
chmod 755 algebra2tex.pl
Re: Update to Tex and Algebra filters
Not this time, TeX works fine. Are there maybe special settings for Apache or PHP?
Re: Update to Tex and Algebra filters
algebra2tex.pl is in your filters/algebra folder not in your filters/tex folder. Anyway what happens when you type
algebra2tex.pl x/2
in a shell terminal window?
algebra2tex.pl x/2
in a shell terminal window?