User:Daveg

Dave Golby's Test Page

This is my home page, mainly used for testing ideas and resolving installationand configuration problems.

Testing the Security Features

I've set up a special area for testing the LockDown facility. You can find it here.

Installation and Configuration of Latex

Some equation tests.

First of all, good old Einstein's famous mass-energy equivalence:

$E=mc^{2}$

Remember the good old days of Newtonian absolute space and time? (sigh...)

$F_{12}={\frac {Gm_{1}m_{2}}{R_{12}^{2}}}$

a totally made up equation to test partial differential symbols:

${\frac {\partial ^{2}y(x,t)}{\partial t^{2}}}=f(t)g(x)$

and another (Ludwig Boltzmann, rest in peace...)

$S=k\log(W)$

Notes

• After much struggle, the above equations should be rendered properly if texvc is working and the MediaWiki is configured correctly.

• Had to install MinGW32 for the basic compilation tools (make in this case). MinGW32 provides an application manager to download and install the components. These are stored in e:\mingw

• The source files for texvc are written in Caml. So another package is required called Objective Caml to compile these up. This is also installed on the E: drive.

• MediaWiki has a Math folder in which various source programs for texvc are kept. The make file in this folder must be executed in order for the texvc.bc code to be generated.

• • NOTE Both Objective Caml bin and Mingw bin folders must be in the path
  • When compiling from the DOS shell, use CAMLLIB=e:\objective caml\lib to enable CAML to pick up the various auxiliary files

• The render.ml file needs to be modified. Consult the page at [1]

• The Math.php file also needs to be modified. Read the instructions for replacing certain code sections at the above link

• I also had to open up all sorts of permissions to different users on the images folder. Not good form but this was required to get it to work.