LaTeX Plugin

Has anyone installed this on a Windows server? And if so, how did they do it?

Thanks. Installed on our test server (running v. 2.2/Linux/Tomcat ) and it looks good.
This has been a much requested feature at our institution.
 

To display math equations, we have used MimeTex (http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html) as a CGI on our server. Does the LateX plugin use a same approach?

Can the equations be exported to HTML/PDF?

It would be nice if your example worked live rather than show a png.

I have had a hard time trying to insall Latex Plugin in Windows environment unsuccessfully .

My Latex distribution is MikTex (I know there are a recommendation for ProTeX, but I already had MikTex installed and working).

The problem seems to be in dvipng (version 1.8). When I try to convert simple.dvi to simple.png it generates a 1kb png 1 pixel squared (just a dot).  I had never have to use dvipng. Does anyone have a clue why? 

This seems to be a very useful plugin. Is the source code available? The subversion directory has only *.class files in the .jar file.

Thanks,

Reinhard

quick bug. If the dvipng does not respond or the users cancels an operation then it will leave running dvipng processes running and therefore possibly consuming all the system resources. In addition the Confluence Home Temp directory becomes littered with temporary files.

Hi

I installed the TEX live plugin as part of the prerequisite and when i test this i get the dvipng not found error, i understand that this should be part of the texlive install but it does not look like unless i am wrong or missing out something.Can anyone help me with this .Also i downloaded the dvipng 1.9 tar file and get error trying to compile to get the binaries created , any help on either will be really helpfull to me in installing this and making use of latex plugin.

Thanks

No joy here, either. I've installed proTeXt, and verified the system path settings (I can run the above sample with no problems). But my pages still say they can't find latex. Restarting the server is no help. This is what I have in the logs:

debugMsg Finished writing LaTeX markup to: LaTeX41494.tex
debugMsg The tex file should be created and called: LaTeX41494tex
debugMsg Creating a a new dvi file from the tex file using the command: latex
debugMsg Running the process: latex
debugMsg Using the arguments:
debugMsg ... arg 1 = -interaction=batchmode
debugMsg In working directory: D:\confluence\data\temp
debugMsg Started cleaning up all generated files from the conversion process.
debugMsg Removing generated file: LaTeX41494.tex
debugMsg Finished cleaning up all generated files from the conversion process.
debugMsg Unable to run latex. Please make sure latex is in the system PATH and can be run using the commandline.
debugMsg CreateProcess: latex -interaction=batchmode D:\confluence\data\temp\LaTeX41494.tex error=2

Hi -

I've followed the directions and installed LaTeX and dvipng, tried the sample simple.tex example (all worked OK, except the output of the dvipng command was simple1.png, not simple.png) but it is nopt working when I use it:

2007-09-24 15:49:59,954 DEBUG [http-8087-Processor1] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg Creating a a new png file from the dvi file using the command: dvipng
2007-09-24 15:49:59,983 DEBUG [http-8087-Processor1] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg Running the process: dvipng
2007-09-24 15:49:59,985 DEBUG [http-8087-Processor1] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg Using the arguments:
2007-09-24 15:49:59,986 DEBUG [http-8087-Processor1] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg ... arg 1 = -T
2007-09-24 15:49:59,988 DEBUG [http-8087-Processor1] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg ... arg 2 = tight
2007-09-24 15:49:59,989 DEBUG [http-8087-Processor1] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg ... arg 3 = -bg
2007-09-24 15:49:59,990 DEBUG [http-8087-Processor1] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg ... arg 4 = transparent
2007-09-24 15:49:59,992 DEBUG [http-8087-Processor1] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg ... arg 5 = -o
2007-09-24 15:49:59,993 DEBUG [http-8087-Processor1] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg ... arg 6 = /nfs/arbitrage/statarb/gsatrader/runtime/confluence-2.5.4/data/temp/LaTeX24226.png
2007-09-24 15:49:59,994 DEBUG [http-8087-Processor1] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg In working directory: /nfs/arbitrage/statarb/gsatrader/runtime/confluence-2.5.4/data/temp
2007-09-24 15:50:00,221 DEBUG [http-8087-Processor1] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg Process failed with exit code: 134

Do you have any ideas about this?    

Great plugin!! I was able to get it up on my linux system pretty fast. I put some LaTeX code in on a page and it worked. I then logged out then logged back in, went to the page and things kind of hung. Eventually, I had to restart my confluence server. Unfortunately, when I went back to the page with my LaTeX code in it I got this:

 When I run latex or dvipng from the command line it works fine. Any thoughts?

I turned on debugging and got this (see my problem above)

2007-10-14 15:36:29,975 DEBUG [TP-Processor3] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg Finished writing LaTeX markup to: LaTeX44540.tex
2007-10-14 15:36:29,976 DEBUG [TP-Processor3] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg The tex file should be created and called: LaTeX44540tex
2007-10-14 15:36:29,978 DEBUG [TP-Processor3] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg Creating a a new dvi file from the tex file using the command: latex
2007-10-14 15:36:29,979 DEBUG [TP-Processor3] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg Running the process: latex
2007-10-14 15:36:29,981 DEBUG [TP-Processor3] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg Using the arguments:
2007-10-14 15:36:29,982 DEBUG [TP-Processor3] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg ... arg 1 = -interaction=batchmode
2007-10-14 15:36:29,984 DEBUG [TP-Processor3] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg In working directory: /opt/confluence/temp
2007-10-14 15:36:30,018 DEBUG [TP-Processor3] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg Started cleaning up all generated files from the conversion process.
2007-10-14 15:36:30,022 DEBUG [TP-Processor3] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg Removing generated file: LaTeX44540.tex
2007-10-14 15:36:30,024 DEBUG [TP-Processor3] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg Finished cleaning up all generated files from the conversion process.
2007-10-14 15:36:30,025 DEBUG [TP-Processor3] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg Unable to run latex. Please make sure latex is in the system PATH and can be run using the commandline.
2007-10-14 15:36:30,027 DEBUG [TP-Processor3] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg java.io.IOException: Cannot allocate memory
 

i notice that this plugin allows any latex command, including ones like \input{}, which seems like a possible security issue... is there any way to disable that?

I'm using Confluence 2.6.0, and I'm getting weird spacing when I export LaTeX to PDF.  Any thoughts?

Thanks! 

LaTeX: Fonts

I am having problems with some LaTeX commands that deal with Fonts

This works:

{latex}
\Large\textsl{Hello}
{latex}

But these fail:

{latex}
\textcolor{red}{Hello}
{latex}

{latex}
\usepackage{antiqua}
\Large\textsl{Hello}
{latex}

Ideas ???

I am having trouble displaying large elements of LaTeX on my pages.  Ater comparing the image of my code rendered through an external LaTeX processor, to the code generated using this plugin, it appears that my rendered  LaTeX  takes up two pages and only the image of the second page is being displayed. Does anyone have suggestions as to why this would happen, and whether there is a solution to it.

I'm trying to export a page with an inline latex expression. When I export to pdf a new line is inserted after the rendered picture. Does anybody know how to avoid this?

I have the following dvipng settings:
dvipng.parameters=-T;tight;-bg;Transparent

Are there any plans now for changing this plugin so that the latex automatically appears in exports to Word docs?  

I raised a support ticket for this a while ago, and was told that the developers would need to fix this issue by reading this:  http://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=107185152.

Thanks! 

How can i cache rendered images? I have more expressions on one page and it takes long time to render every time. Logical would be update rendered images after clicking save button, not every view of the page. Thank you for tip.

Can someone confirm what platform this instance of Confluence runs on, and what Tex distro is being used? Im running into problems with the Complex example. I was using MikTex2.6/win32 but have had to use mimetex to fix problems with even simple markup. (Protex 500MB+ download is underway :/).

I'm having the same issue that Jamie (above) is having-

I'm running Windows 2003 server - I follow the instructions by installing ProText and verify it works by using the sample tex file given. Everything seems to work fine on the server side. I then try to use the macro in a page and the page locks up when I try to access it. I am using dvipng - which seemed to work fine from the command line.

Should I try the mimetex version of the plugin? If so, what do I need to do - just take the JAR file from the mimetex zip and upload it to the repository? I'm confused....

all works fine. subscripting, vertical division ...
However, I fail to use greek letters like \alpha

I hope this is the right place for a question on utility of this plugin. Is the scenario described below a reasonable thing to ask of this plugin?---perhaps if the answer is in the negative, someone could suggest a better way to attack this problem in the Confluence world. Thanks in advance for any opinions and advice.

I have an already-existing 300 page book written in LaTex. I want to create a  wiki version of the book which would be isomorphic with the original in terms of chapters, sections, illustrations, etc., but would allow user-supplied enhancements, comments, etc. that would ultimately be folded back into the original document for physical publication in succeeding versions.  In other words, the physical book would evolve along with the site, but would not be a direct function of the raw user input.

Virtually no public user in the target audience will understand LaTex or Tex. Using confluence will be a stretch for most. Thus, user input would be ordinary comments, new pages, etc, not LaTex.  Professional editors would ultimately fold the content back into a definitive LaTex version for physical publication, but ideally the conversion from book to wiki would be automated with a script

Is this a realistic use of Confluence plus this plugin, or is it a pipe dream?

Anyone from Stepston monitoring?

A useful feature would be to enable the dynamic addition of more packages, as the current plugin only allows those latex packages defined in the header.ext file (amsmath, amsthm, amssymb, bm). Given the massive number of packages, something like the following + some parsing /splicing into the existing header would expand the usefulness of the plugin.

{latex:packages=textcomp}
\texteuro 
{latex}

Well, curiosity got the better of me, I've just checked out the code and done this, when I get it tested should I tag a branch including the fix for review?

I've created a branch of the main plugin code, and made the following enhancements/changes. The authors should indicate if they want it in trunk. These changes enables much more access to Latex packages - however, you mileage will definitely vary.

1. Ability to include arbitrary latex packages, in addition to the defaults provided in the latex-header.property file (amsmath,amsthm,amssymb), you can also define specific encodings with '[encoding]packagename'.
2. Ability to enter raw latex, ignoring all configuration in the header/footer files. From the little I know about latex, being able to remove the default packages in favour of some other glyph providing package is sometimes needed, it also, in theory, enables users who actually understand latex to do anything they like.
3. Render timeouts added, hopefully solving 'hanging pages/processes' which are all to common with latex executions (there is a 30S default timeout, that can be overridden in the latex.property file with 'renderTimeout=xxxx', which in turn can be overridden on a per-macro basis.
4. The enormous error stacks are now in twisties in the red-error screen, along with the 'final' Latex markup
5. Plugin converted to Maven2, source code structure revamped

The 1.3-SNAPSHOT jar is not in the plugin repository so you'll need to download and install manually to test it.

Macro parameter examples

{latex:packages=textcomp}
\texteuro 
{latex}

{latex:rawMarkup=true}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{color}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\fontsize{22}{28}\selectfont
\color{red}\( E=mc^{2} \)
\end{document}
{latex}

{latex:renderTimeout=5000|rawMarkup=true}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{mnsymbol}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{undertilde}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\color{blue}
\texteuro $\utilde{abc}$
$\boxbackslash \filledmedtriangledown \pentagram \iiiint \oiint$
\end{document}
{latex}

I finally got this to work with MiKTeX 2.7. The key was to go to MiKTex settings and on the first tab change "Install missing packages on the fly" to Yes. Otherwise it often hangs when looking at pages with {latex} tags

Disregard comment...I figured out what was wrong. Still having problems, but I think they are more in line with the comments above.

Hello,

I took the 1.2.1 branch and added ehcache support because running the LaTeX command over and over again wasn't practical in any production system. I've also got a maven 2 pom.xml file to build the plugin (I pinched it from graphviz!).

How do I go about submitting this back to the project?

John

Hi,
This may be of interest to people here who are interested in the Math side of things.

A while back I tested the Latex-plugin soln for Math in Confluence and felt it was too brittle and resource hungry. So for our institution instance of Confluence I developed a plugin that is based on Peter Jipsen's ASCIIMath (with image alternatives (mathTex) for non-MathML capable browsers) that works well for Edinburgh University. Math markup {math} is inline by default but there are markup options for block-level display and labels.

When I get time (been saying this for over a year) I'll go through the process of adding it to the repository here. In the meantime, you can download it from here:

http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~kbrunton/confluence/asciimath/plugins-asciimath.jar

The download contains a readme on how to install, use, etc. Current version is v1.09. You can see a comprehensive test page showing the features here:

https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/CONF25/ASCII+Math+Help

Tested on:
Confluence: Versions 2.6.x, 2.10.1.
with
Mozilla 1.5.x 2.x, IE 6, 7.0 (MathPlayer), Opera 9, Safari 3.x (image-fallback) on Windows
Mozilla 1.5.x 2.x, Safari 3.x (image-fallback) on Mac
Mozilla 1.5x, 2.0x on Linux

Regards,
Keith Brunton

Hi Brian,

Apologies - this was my mistake in my original posting.

I'm working with Andy Brook to get this plugin into shape where it can be made available more generally.

In the meantime, I've temporarily made available an install doc here: http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~kbrunton/confluence/asciimath/readme.txt - the jar file mentioned above is a standard plugin jar but there is an extra manual inclusion of some javascript (and css) reqd to get it working - see the readme.txt for what I mean. I'm hoping that with Andy's expertise that this manual step can be removed soon.

I hope this helps,
Keith

I have this formula

 {latex}
 \( x = {\ln {X \over F} \over T^\alpha }\)
 {latex}

It is rendered too small however. How can I make it look bigger?

rds,

Hi -

I am new to confluence wiki.  Just installed latex plugin with confluence 2.7.3 with Apache Tomcat 5.5.20, teTeX 3.0, on a Solaris system.  I got this message (Unable to find DVI conversion log file.
) in the log,  and any advise will be appreciated.

2009-04-21 09:01:16,795 DEBUG [TP-Processor7] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg Writing the LaTeX body: ( E=mc^ Unknown macro: {2} ) 2009-04-21 09:01:16,799 DEBUG [TP-Processor7] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg Writing the LaTeX footer: \end Unknown macro: {document} 2009-04-21 09:01:16,804 DEBUG [TP-Processor7] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg Finished writing LaTeX markup to: LaTeX20412.tex 2009-04-21 09:01:16,808 DEBUG [TP-Processor7] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg The tex file should be created and called: LaTeX20412tex 2009-04-21 09:01:16,812 DEBUG [TP-Processor7] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg Creating a a new dvi file from the tex file using the command: latex 2009-04-21 09:01:16,816 DEBUG [TP-Processor7] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg Running the process: latex 2009-04-21 09:01:16,820 DEBUG [TP-Processor7] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg Using the arguments: 2009-04-21 09:01:16,824 DEBUG [TP-Processor7] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg ... arg 1 = -interaction=batchmode 2009-04-21 09:01:16,828 DEBUG [TP-Processor7] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg In working directory: /usr/local/data/confluence-2.7.3/temp 2009-04-21 09:01:17,234 DEBUG [TP-Processor7] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg Process failed with exit code: 9 2009-04-21 09:01:17,251 DEBUG [TP-Processor7] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg Unable to find DVI conversion log file. 2009-04-21 09:01:17,257 DEBUG [TP-Processor7] [confluence.plugins.latex.LatexMacro] debugMsg /usr/local/data/confluence-2.7.3/temp/LaTeX20412.log (No such file or directory)

Is there a plugin maintainer monitoring this page? Id like to get the 1.3 branch I did made the official version, any care to test and indicate acceptability?

Hi we r using Confluence-2.8.2 on WindowsXP environment.Is this plugin is compatible for our confluence?

I followed all the instalation and configuration part and

I tried following code, but it is showing some formatting error.

"{latex}

\documentclass[12pt]{article}%We have defined the document to be an article useing 12 pt font
%Blank lines mean nothing here in the preamble.
\begin{document}
\section{This is a Section}\subsection{This is a subsection}This is the body of the subsection.
I can move to a new line anytime, and I can put in lots of
blanks with no effect.
Skipping four lines is the same as skipping one line
-------- it starts a new paragraph.
\subsection{Here is another subsection}\section{Here is another section}\end{document}
{latex} "

I tried same latex code using command prompt.It has given output fine.

Would u please help me in this case?

Thank you,

regards,

Kalyan

Is anyone else having problems getting the square root symbol to show up?  It works in the MikTex editor on the server, but doesn't work thru the latex plug-in.

It just renders "sqrt2" on my page.  Other latex symbols seem to be working fine.

hi, is it possible to "hide" the error messages generated by the Latex plugin.

It seem to display quite a bit of system information that might pose some security issues.

regards

Would anyone please comment on the Tip & Tricks section?
I am not able to fathom how to build and use a LaTeX statement library.
The version of the plugin I am using is latex-plugin-1.2.1.jar on a Linux Debian Etch.

I tried to build a statement library and to use the include page macro to load my LaTeX statements.
I started with a simple {latex} section like this

Markup:
{latex}
\newcommand{\myacto}[2]{ {\mbox{acto}_{#1}({#2})}} % macro for acto
[
\frac{ \myacto{pa \le d}{AC} }{ \myacto{}{AC'} }
]
{latex}

This renders perfectly!

Now, I tried to move the command definition
\newcommand{\myacto}[2]{ {\mbox{acto}_{#1}({#2})}}
into a separate page and to include that page in my remaining latex markup by using the confluence
include page macro.

{latex}
{include:~fabr:LaTeX_Makros_MT_II}
[
\frac{ \myacto{pa \le d}{AC} }{ \myacto{}{AC'} }
]
{latex}

The problem is that the confluence framework calls the execute method of the LaTeX plugin with the entire markup between the {latex} keywords. Especially, the confluence macro
{include:~fabr:LaTeX_Makros_MT_II}
gets interpreted by the external LaTeX process, which obviously causes LaTeX errors.

Question: Is there some way to make the confluence framework evaluate the
{include:~fabr:LaTeX_Makros_MT_II} macro before it is calling the
LaTeX plugin?

Of course, putting my definitions into the LaTeX header file of the plugin is not an option.
I need to maintain my LaTeX command definitions inside my user space.

Many thanx,

FABR