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Ultimate Latex for WordPress : Features

July 14th, 2009

I made a wordpress plugin to write LaTeX on WordPress (well to be the truth I modified another plugin). I believe that this is the ultimate solution for writing latex on WordPress. I will write a series of post regarding this plugin, how to install it and how to set preferences. In this post I will just showing the available features and convince you that this is indeed the ultimate solution . Here are the main features:

No Need Latex in Your Server

You don’t need to have $\LaTeX$ installed on your server. The plugin solution is based on the mathtex.cgi written by John Forkosh and on the public mathtex server that John listed on his page.

Latex Syntax

I am not satisfied with the solution offered by another plugin to write latex symbol as $latex \latexcode$ or [tex]\latexcode[/tex]. No more making mistakes writing $\latexcode$
instead of $latex \latexcode$ like in the hosted wordpress because now this plugin support the native syntax of $\LaTeX$ ., i.e., by writing

$\latexcode$ or \[\latexcode\]. For example writing $\lim_{x\to c}\frac{f(x)-f(c)}{x-c}$ will give you an inline math formula $\lim_{x\to c}\frac{f(x)-f(c)}{x-c}$ and if you write \[\lim_{x\to c}\frac{f(x)-f(c)}{x-c}\] you will get

$\lim_{x\to c}\frac{f(x)-f(c)}{x-c}$ which is a displayed math formula written on a new lineand aligned center.
There is also a special syntax to write one single dollar notation $ which is different from the $\LaTeX$ syntax.

Multiline Latex Source Code

Using the one line code $\begin{pmatrix}a&b&c&d&e\\f&g&h&i&j\\k&l&m&n&0\\p&q&r&s&t\\u&v&w&x&y\end{pmatrix}$ to produce $\begin{pmatrix}a&b&c&d&e\\f&g&h&i&j\\k&l&m&n&0\\p&q&r&s&t\\u&v&w&x&y\end{pmatrix}$ is uncomfortable and it is hard to debug.
Using this plugin this multiline code which is more readable
$
\begin{pmatrix}
a&b&c&d&e\\
f&g&h&i&j\\
k&l&m&n&0\\
p&q&r&s&t\\
u&v&w&x&y
\end{pmatrix}}
$
produces exactly the same matrix $ \begin{pmatrix} a&b&c&d&e\\ f&g&h&i&j\\ k&l&m&n&0\\ p&q&r&s&t\\ u&v&w&x&y \end{pmatrix} $

Latex in Multicolor

Can you produce something like this by your current latex plugin?

$ \begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|} \hline {\color{Apricot} Apricot}& {\color{Aquamarine} Aquamarine}& {\color{Bittersweet} Bittersweet}& {\color{Black} Black}\\ \hline {\color{Blue} Blue}& {\color{BlueGreen} BlueGreen}& {\color{BlueViolet} BlueViolet}& {\color{BrickRed} BrickRed}\\ \hline {\color{Brown} Brown}& {\color{BurntOrange} BurntOrange}& {\color{CadetBlue} CadetBlue}& {\color{CarnationPink} CarnationPink}\\ \hline {\color{Cerulean} Cerulean}& {\color{CornflowerBlue} CornflowerBlue}& {\color{Cyan} Cyan}& {\color{Dandelion} Dandelion}\\ \hline {\color{DarkOrchid} DarkOrchid}& {\color{Emerald} Emerald}& {\color{ForestGreen} ForestGreen}& {\color{Fuchsia} Fuchsia}\\ \hline {\color{Goldenrod} Goldenrod}& {\color{Gray} Gray}& {\color{Green} Green}& {\color{GreenYellow} GreenYellow}\\ \hline {\color{JungleGreen} JungleGreen}& {\color{Lavender} Lavender}& {\color{LimeGreen} LimeGreen}& {\color{Magenta} Magenta}\\ \hline {\color{Mahogany} Mahogany}& {\color{Maroon} Maroon}& {\color{Melon} Melon}& {\color{MidnightBlue} MidnightBlue}\\ \hline {\color{Mulberry} Mulberry}& {\color{NavyBlue} NavyBlue}& {\color{OliveGreen} OliveGreen}& {\color{Orange} Orange}\\ \hline {\color{OrangeRed} OrangeRed}& {\color{Orchid} Orchid}& {\color{Peach} Peach}& {\color{Periwinkle} Periwinkle}\\ \hline {\color{PineGreen} PineGreen}& {\color{Plum} Plum}& {\color{ProcessBlue} ProcessBlue}& {\color{Purple} Purple}\\ \hline {\color{RawSienna} RawSienna}& {\color{Red} Red}& {\color{RedOrange} RedOrange}& {\color{RedViolet} RedViolet}\\ \hline {\color{Rhodamine} Rhodamine}& {\color{RoyalBlue} RoyalBlue}& {\color{RoyalPurple} RoyalPurple}& {\color{RubineRed} RubineRed}\\ \hline {\color{Salmon} Salmon}& {\color{SeaGreen} SeaGreen}& {\color{Sepia} Sepia}& {\color{SkyBlue} SkyBlue}\\ \hline {\color{SpringGreen} SpringGreen}& {\color{Tan} Tan}& {\color{TealBlue} TealBlue}& {\color{Thistle} Thistle}\\ \hline {\color{Turquoise} Turquoise}& {\color{Violet} Violet}& {\color{VioletRed} VioletRed}& {\color{White} White}\\ \hline {\color{WildStrawberry} WildStrawberry}& {\color{Yellow} Yellow}& {\color{YellowGreen} YellowGreen}& {\color{YellowOrange} YellowOrange}\\ \hline \end{tabular} $

Dark Theme Enabled

This plugin will produce a transparent images and the multicolors capability you can set a global color. So those of you who have blog with dark background no need to be worry anymore because you can produce transparent latex image with a bright color.

Supporting Some Cool Latex Packages

You can add up to more 9 latex packages. The default packages are latin, amsmath, amssymb, amsfonts. Some non-standard package is not working. These packages are working: xypic and fancybox.

Here are some example from the two last packages

$\usepackage{fancybox} \color{Red} \shadowbox{This shadowbox is cool!!}$

I know lots of math blogger play around with this snake

$ \usepackage[all]{xy}\color{RoyalBlue}\xymatrix{&A\ar[d]_a\ar[r]^f&B\ar[d]_b\ar[r]^g&C\ar[d]_c\ar[r]&0\\0\ar[r]&A'\ar[r]^{f'}&B'\ar[r]^{g'}&C'} $

Overall it seems it have nice features huh. Did I convince you that this is $\usepackage{fancybox} \color{Blue}\ovalbox{The Ultimate Latex for WordPress ?}$ . Wait for my next tutorial on how to install this plugin.

Categories: Latex, Latex for Wordpress

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Ultimate Latex For Wordpress : Installation and General Syntax July 21st, 2009

[...] don’t need another one, I suggest you to take a look first the features that this plugin has here and then you can comeback here if you like the available [...]

Charlie August 16th, 2009

Does the plugin support eqnarray? e.g.

$ \begin{eqnarray} a&=&b\\ v&=&1+2 \end{eqnarray} $

watchmath August 16th, 2009

Usually I prefer the multiline equation provided by ams package.
You can write
$\begin{align*}a+b+c&=d\\e&=f+g+h+i\end{align*}$
to get
$\begin{align*}a+b+c&=d\\e&=f+g+h+i\end{align*}$ .
You can get similar result if you replace align* by align or aligned.

Ultimate Latex for WordPress : Features

No Need Latex in Your Server

Latex Syntax

Multiline Latex Source Code

Latex in Multicolor

Dark Theme Enabled

Supporting Some Cool Latex Packages

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