Mediawiki extensions: mathjax

While technically not an extension, mathjax can be used as an alternative to tex for rendering math in mediawiki.

Usage

In order to use math rendering, all you need to do is enter LaTeX code betweeen <math></math> tags. MathJax will render it client-side provided that JavaScript is enabled.

<math>\exp_a b = a^b, \exp b = e^b, 10^m </math>

$\exp _{a}b=a^{b},\exp b=e^{b},10^{m}$

Install

Builtin Support

The current method of using mathjax.

simpleMathJax

This has replaced the legacy mathjax font rendering system.

cd $www/mediawiki/extensions
git clone https://github.com/jmnote/SimpleMathJax.git

# /usr/local/www/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php
require_once "$IP/extensions/SimpleMathJax/SimpleMathJax.php";
$wgSimpleMathJaxSize = 80;

mathJaxLegacy

cd $www/mediawiki/extensions
mkdir MathJax
cd MathJax
curl -o MathJax.php http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk.nuyens/Extension_MathJax/MathJax.php.txt
curl -o mwMathJaxConfig.js http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk.nuyens/Extension_MathJax/mwMathJaxConfig.js

# /usr/local/www/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php
require_once("$IP/extensions/MathJax/MathJax.php");

# If the font isn't being scaled upwards or downwards with $wgSimpleMathSize,
# You can force the global settings:

# $IP$/components/com_jwiki/extensions/MathJax/mwMathJaxConfig.js
# add:
"HTML-CSS": { scale:80 },
# before:
TeX: {