Wordpress Mimetex plug-in (modified)

Introduction

You can embed Latex math formulas to Wordpress posts using mimetex plug-in.

There were some problems with the original plug-in:

  • If libcurl is not installed to PHP on your hosting plan, or disabled for security reasons and dl() module is not enabled because of safe mode you will not be able to use this plug-in.
  • Rich text editor clears “<tex></tex>” tags.
  • Does not support tex code in comments.

Download

If you suffer from these problems use this modified version: Modified Dahnielson Mimetex

Install

Unpack the zip archive to the Wordpress plugins directory and activate the plug-in.
As usual: “Important: You need a writable /wp-content/cache directory on the server!”

Details

  • Use “[ tex ] [ /tex ]” tags (without spaces) to embed math formulas.
  • Now plugin supports mimetex code written on comments. (Thanks to Robert Jones)
  • You can also change the formula image appereance from your CSS file. It’s class is “tex”. Example: 
    .tex{
padding: 0;
}
  • Instead of using libcurl, Snoopy is used. That is the reason for the second file. Probably this detail is not very important for most of the users.

Example

\large f^\prime(x)\=\lim_{\Delta x\to0}\frac{f(x+\Delta x)-f(x)}{\Delta x}will produce:
\large f^\prime(x)\ = \lim_{\Delta x\to0}\frac{f(x+\Delta x)-f(x)}{\Delta x}

Alternatives

Martin Becker made the plug-in more compatible and the code more clear. You may wish to try that version if this does not work for you. You can find it here.

Changelog

  • 1.1 Support on comments and CSS support for tex images.
  • 1.0 Rich editor problem and curl issue fixed

October 10, 2006

* Yazar: bitkidoku
Kategori: Uncategorized

52 Responses to “Wordpress Mimetex plug-in (modified)”

  1. Dahnielson » Blog by Numbers: Don’t Shoot the Mime, TeX! Says:
    October 10th, 2006 at 11:15 am

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  2. brett Says:
    October 18th, 2006 at 5:12 pm

    Immediately after clicking activivate, I get the warnings below:

    Warning: main() [function.main]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(C:\php5\pear/Snoopy.class.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/) in d:\home\ABC.COM\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\dahnielson_mimetex.php on line 34

    Warning: main(Snoopy.class.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in d:\home\ABC.COM\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\dahnielson_mimetex.php on line 34

    Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening ‘Snoopy.class.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.;C:\php5\pear’) in d:\home\ABC.COM\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\dahnielson_mimetex.php on line 34

    Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at d:\home\ABC.COM\wordpress\wp-content\plugins\dahnielson_mimetex.php:34) in d:\home\ABC.COM\wordpress\wp-includes\pluggable-functions.php on line 270

    This always displays above any page now. The error occurs whether or not the snoopy file is there. I don’t see anything related to the Snoopy plug-in for activation, although it is in the plug-in folder. I only see “mimeTeX”. Any ideas?

    Thanks,
    Brett

  3. bitkidoku Says:
    October 19th, 2006 at 7:46 pm

    @Brett: it seems that the script cannot include Snoopy.class.php try changing the line 34 in danhielson_mimetex.php from:
    include "Snoopy.class.php";
    to:
    include "./Snoopy.class.php";

  4. Brett Says:
    October 19th, 2006 at 8:06 pm

    Thanks. Now it gives this error:

    Warning: main(./Snoopy.class.php) [function.main]: failed to

    open stream: No such file or directory in

    d:\home\ABC.COM\blog\wp-content\plugins\dahnielson_mimetex.php

    on line 34

    Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening

    ‘./Snoopy.class.php’ for inclusion

    (include_path=’.;C:\php5\pear’) in

    d:\home\ABC.COM\blog\wp-content\plugins\dahnielson_mimetex.php

    on line 34

    Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent

    by (output started at

    d:\home\ABC.COM\blog\wp-content\plugins\dahnielson_mimetex.php

    :34) in

    d:\home\ABC.COM\blog\wp-includes\pluggable-functions.php on

    line 270

  5. bitkidoku Says:
    October 19th, 2006 at 11:38 pm

    Did you install wordpress on your local machine or on an hosting plan?
    I think it is the first case (local machine). Change the code back to the previous version (include “Snoopy.class.php”;) and copy Snoopy.class.php file to the folder C:\php5\pear\

  6. Brett Says:
    October 20th, 2006 at 1:36 am

    I have a hosting plan and installed WordPress. That was the only way I could use plugins (WordPress.com doesn’t allow them). I haven’t noticed any other issues with WordPress.

    Thanks,
    Brett

  7. bitkidoku Says:
    October 20th, 2006 at 11:15 am

    I am not really sure what causes the problem. You have uploaded Snoopy.class.php to plugins folder, right?

  8. brett Says:
    October 20th, 2006 at 6:12 pm

    Yes.

  9. Brett Says:
    October 22nd, 2006 at 5:46 am

    I replaced the include with this line

    require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘\\Snoopy.class.php’);

    Everything is fine now.

  10. rawk Says:
    November 3rd, 2006 at 4:56 am

    Hello,

    Apparently, [tex] tags inserted in comments does not work, is it possible to have the plugin recognize them?

    Thank you,

  11. bitkidoku Says:
    November 3rd, 2006 at 5:17 pm

    yes, it is possible. I can’t promise but I will try to look into it in future. I am very busy nowadays.

  12. About My WordPress | Brett Romero’s Blog Says:
    November 5th, 2006 at 10:15 pm

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  13. Robert Jones Says:
    November 22nd, 2006 at 12:08 am

    This is a brilliant piece of collaborative work! In response to bitidoku’s request, I have just about cracked mimetex in comments, but I’ve hit one snag. Somewhere along the line, plus signs are being chopped out of comments before they get picked up by the plugin. If someone can suggest a way to stop doing this, we should be there. All I did was add this to the list of filters:

    add_filter(’comment_text’, array($dahnielson_mimetex_object, ‘parse’));

    then did a bit of fiddling to stop Snoopy getting double included/not included at all.

  14. bitkidoku Says:
    November 22nd, 2006 at 7:09 pm

    testing comments :)
    \Large f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^x e^{-t^2}dt

  15. rawk Says:
    November 22nd, 2006 at 7:39 pm

    Not bad.. However I always wondered why mimetex is not nicely antialiased.. the font looks like a 1950 textbook :-(

  16. Robert Jones Says:
    November 22nd, 2006 at 10:29 pm

    Seems to be working OK here. I have had a problem with the wp-includes/class-snoopy.php file. I had to change line 38 to

    if ( !class_exists(’Snoopy’) ) :

    in order to prevent “can’t redeclare….” errors

    This is a bug in the class-snoopy.php file, as it is clearly attempting to prevent redeclaration.

    Hopefully we can convince the wordpress people to fix this in a future release. Meanwhile the fix above should enable us to use \LaTeX in comments.

  17. rawk Says:
    November 22nd, 2006 at 11:36 pm

    Doh’.. I get this error when entering the wordpress dashboard at /wp-admin/index.php :

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class snoopy in /home/content/s/t/r/www/html/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php on line 40

  18. Robert Jones Says:
    November 22nd, 2006 at 11:55 pm

    Yep - I had that problem (tried to post a comment to that effect but it got swallowed somehow)

    You can fix this by editing wp-includes/class-snoopy.php and replacing the line

    if ( !in_array(’Snoopy’, get_declared_classes() ) ) :

    with the line

    if ( !class_exists(’Snoopy’) ) :

  19. Robert Jones Says:
    November 22nd, 2006 at 11:57 pm

    Yep - I had that problem (tried to post a comment to that effect but it got swallowed somehow)

    You can fix this by editing wp-includes/class-snoopy.php….

  20. bitkidoku Says:
    November 23rd, 2006 at 1:49 am

    Yeah sorry about the Snoopy bug it is fixed now. (by the way there is a comment moderation that is why your comments wont show up instantly)

  21. rawk Says:
    November 23rd, 2006 at 2:47 am

    I tried to put

    if (!class_exists(’Snoopy’)) include “Snoopy.class.php”;

    But the dashboard still has same error. If I comment out the line, then no error in Dashboard, but error when displaying the blog posts containing tex tags.

  22. Robert Jones Says:
    November 25th, 2006 at 1:38 am

    Rawk - what version of Wordpress are you using? There must be a good, robust solution to this problem. I’ll ponder over the weekend :)

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  24. Robert Jones Says:
    November 26th, 2006 at 5:31 pm

    OK - how about this. Change line 38 of the plugin to read:

    if (!class_exists(’Snoopy’)) include get_settings(’siteurl’).”/wp-includes/class-snoopy.php”;

    This works for me. It may not be backwards compatible with anything prior to 2.05 though. Worth a try.

  25. Studium @ Uni Wuerzburg » Blog Archiv » mimeTeX_1.1.2 Says:
    December 22nd, 2006 at 9:47 pm

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  26. martin Says:
    December 22nd, 2006 at 10:25 pm

    Hi, I had a lot of trouble getting this Plugin to work. Now that it does work, I want to share with you people for I don’t wanna do stuff like that just for myself ;-). I cleanded up the code, made one or the other change and it works perfectly for me now. I fixed some problem I kept having with the Admin-Index and repeating use of TeX-Expression in Comments as well as some other crazy Problems. If you are interested, check this out and tell me what you think:

    http://studium.fstyle.de/weblog/2006/12/22/mimetex_112/

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  28. Suman Sanyal Says:
    January 3rd, 2007 at 7:47 am

    I have just installed this plugin. There seems to be problem when I am trying to use
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    The “&” is showing as #038. Is there any way I can fix this?

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  31. Robert Jones Says:
    April 21st, 2007 at 12:44 am

    This plugin needs a wee patch, to reflect the new url of the public mimetex server:

    http://www.forkosh.dreamhost.com/mimetex.cgi?

    should replace the old one.

  32. Beware of the Leopard » Testing testing 1 2 3 Says:
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  35. foq Says:
    January 27th, 2008 at 11:56 pm

    any help here would be appreciated: i’ve installed and activated the plugin (used both mimetex-plugin and dahnielson_mimetex phps) but for some reason it will not render on my site. it just drops the tags and prints the code, so that the published post would read \small y_t = x_t + \epsilon_t instead of the image. It has worked in prior posts but recently I switched themes, and now it doesn’t seem to. Any ideas?

  36. Matematik Özel Ders Says:
    February 2nd, 2008 at 6:16 am

    Great post and thx for help…

  37. aL Says:
    February 19th, 2008 at 6:10 am

    i have some problems with the plugins with them asking us to input HTTP-Referrer.
    How can I resolve this?

  38. program images webmaster galeri Says:
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  41. Dyau Says:
    July 22nd, 2009 at 8:40 am

    \large f^\prime(x)\=\lim_{\Delta x\to0}\frac{f(x+\Delta x)-f(x)}{\Delta x}

  42. Dyau Says:
    July 22nd, 2009 at 8:43 am

    Can’t wait to test this on my site’s wordpress component. Will need to create a patch for Elgg as well.

    Nice work, many thanks!

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  47. txs72 Says:
    January 21st, 2010 at 5:35 pm

    \large f^\prime(x)\=\lim_{\Delta x\to0}\frac{f(x+\Delta x)-f(x)}{\Delta x}

    Try again.

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