De Rerum Natura

I have started the painful process of enabling MathML support on MediaWiki. This is crucial for my use of wiki technology in my workflow. Check out the first step I have taken: enabling texvc (which produces either HTML or .png output).

The next step is to connect it with blahtex so I produce true MathML and correct XHTML headers with MathML. This is not trivial since the blahtex hacked distribution over at BerliOS is at version 1.7 for MediaWiki but the current version is at number 1.11.2. This means that I have to go thru the list of blahtex modified files in the current version.

I have done something similar for MathML on this blog (using itex2MML). It clearly is the case that the math enabled web is still far from being the default. When I have time, and if I succeed in creating a strict XHTML+MathML MediaWiki version, I’ll document my steps somewhat similarly to the steps I took with WordPress .