Eric Stinson

Quadratic formula, anyone?

I’m using a wordpress plugin that uses mimetex. You can learn more about the plugin I used here: http://studium.fstyle.de/weblog/2006/12/22/mimetex_112/ . I chose this plugin over others because it’s really easy to install, because it uses a public mimetex server. If you try to use this in your wordpress blog, you might want to know that the plugin from the above link must be modified to point to the current public mimetex server. It’s in the comments of the above link, but I’ll put it here too:

I just thought you might like to know that the address of the public mimetex server has changed, though, to http://www.forkosh.dreamhost.com/mimetex.cgi

So line 82 just needs to be changed to:
$snoopy->fetch(’http://www.forkosh.dreamhost.com/mimetex.cgi?’.urlencode($formula_text));

and the plugin will work again.

Thanks to etonkin for that useful comment! (note: the link on “etonkin” also take you to his page where he describes the change that needs to be made)

More later on the things I have planned for this plugin. Sweet.

73′s