TeX Editor

Features

• You can edit tex expressions representing mathematical formulae
  • in a textarea input field and directly see the result in
  • an ajax preview box.
• There are configurable, clickable icons for inserting predefined TEX expressions
  • defined on your user page "User:yourname/TEX/Favorites" (if available) or
  • defined on the page "TEX/Favorites" (if available) or
  • defined by the code.
• There is a special page: "The TEX Box" as well as
• a new toolbar icon $\textstyle \sum$ for opening the tex editor when editing a normal wiki page (provided you allowed popup windows to be opened), formulae including the math-tags can be directly insterted into the editor area.

Installation

• enable math support on your wiki (see the README file in the math directory)
• create a new file "SpecialTexbox.php" in the directory "includes" of your mediawiki installation
• copy the code from TEX_Editor/Code into the file "SpecialTexbox.php"
• add these three lines to "LocalSettings.php"

require_once("SpecialTexbox.php");
$wgAjaxExportList[] = 'wfSajaxMath';
$wgUseAjax = true;

• create a new page "TEX/Favorites" on your wiki and copy the content of TEX Editor/TEX/Favorites
• open the page "MediaWiki:Texbox" on your wiki and insert the text "The TEX Box"
• go to the special page "The TEX Box" and give it a try (The first load of the page may take some time.)
• open any wiki page for editing and click on the new toolbar icon $\textstyle \sum$

Tested on

• Firefox, IE
• Mediawiki 1.7.1, does not work on 1.6 and 1.8.2 (due to broken ajax support)

Screen shots

File:Texbox1.png The special page mode.

File:Texbox2.png The popup window mode.