New PDF module
LaTeX Toolbar relies on html2ps and ps2pdf as opposed to a full-fledged LaTeX installation to generate PDF's.
Toolbar comes with about a hundred common mathematical symbols to point and click math markup.
For more information about html2ps see http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html
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Read moreImage conversion
I have just successfully installed Drutex on a shared server. As it turned out, for whatever reason my host does not support dvipng, but they do support ImageMagick. However, the convert binary does not accept a dvi input, and so a third program is required to run after latex and before convert. Luckily the binary dvips is included with the texlive package my host installed, making this not a very big hurdle. After creating the custom commands for Drutex the latex finally rendered correctly.
Read moreIssues on the PDF and TeX generation
I found two disturbing issues when creating a PDF or a Tex file from a node.
First, the PDF is not updated, once it is created the first time. The reason is this test located in the drutex_node2pdf_wrapper
function:
if (!is_file("$pdf_dir/{$node->nid}.pdf")) {
drutex_node2pdf($nid);
}
I just commented the test in my site. PDF should be generated each time it is requested, as node might have been updated in the meanwhile.
Read morePDF Generation error
Hi folks:
I've been playing around with the module, and I found an error when converting html tags to latex commands (more precisely, when converting the tag <em> to the \emph{} command).
For some reason I got a "\" before the opening curly bracket, so the command - \emph{ whatever } - was not properly recongized.
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