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.

Internal Variables

These are some internal variables that should be rendered correctly at run-time.

Consult the article here for more info on these variables.

Here are some examples of these variables:

• KBwiki The name of the site (SITENAME)
• //kbwiki.ercoftac.org The name of the server (SERVER)
• User:Daveg The full name of the current page (FULLPAGENAME)
• User:Daveg The name of the article (ARTICLEPAGENAME)
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