[Blindmath] Putting SVGDraw images, vOICe audio, and LaTeX content in Wordpress: Am I asking the impossible?

Andrew Stacey andrew.stacey at math.ntnu.no
Sun Mar 11 21:32:19 UTC 2012


Regarding Wordpress and maths/latex:

1. The usual way that people put latex (which really means maths) on their
wordpress blogs is via a plugin that converts the latex to an image.  Some do
this on the host machine, some send it off to a public server for conversion
(but both cache the image locally).  So your maths would be as accessible as
any image would be.

2. A while ago (and at least one version of wordpress ago), I converted
a wordpress installation so that it could serve MathML instead of images.  It
wasn't terribly difficult, but it did require a couple of (small)
modifications that couldn't (as far as I know) be done via plugins.  This
would require hosting the blog yourself and being okay with making changes to
the code.  This would be the way I would do it.

3. A middle ground would be to put MathJaX on top of your blog.  This is not
as good as the second method because the conversion of latex happens
client-side not server-side, but still is better than images.

Andrew Stacey




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