On Sun, 17 Mar 2019, Gordon Messmer wrote:> On 3/17/19 4:47 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> Wikipedia seems to use tex, so I installed texlive and texlive-* . > > > Formulas can be composed with tex, but they're displayed as images.? You > shouldn't need any special browser support to display formulas.? Can you > post a screenshot somewhere?http://web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~hennebry/Screenshot2019-03-17+21-29-06.png As one might suspect, it's on the NDSU CS department's server. The web site seems to be emitting tex. Presumably something has to translate between tex and image. That said, firefox worked (barely) before I installed texlive. -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." -- someeecards
On 3/17/19 7:47 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:> > http://web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~hennebry/Screenshot2019-03-17+21-29-06.png > The web site seems to be emitting tex. > Presumably something has to translate between tex and image. > That said, firefox worked (barely) before I installed texlive.It looks like you're using Konqueror, not Firefox. The Tex you're seeing is alt-text for (what should be) the SVG images.? I'm not sure how installing texlive would affect the browser.
On Sun, 17 Mar 2019, Gordon Messmer wrote:> On 3/17/19 7:47 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> >> http://web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~hennebry/Screenshot2019-03-17+21-29-06.png >> The web site seems to be emitting tex. >> Presumably something has to translate between tex and image. >> That said, firefox worked (barely) before I installed texlive. > > > It looks like you're using Konqueror, not Firefox.Correct. That is what I wrote: On Sun, 17 Mar 2019, Michael Hennebry wrote:> Firefox spends so much time in th D state that I am trying konqueror.That firefox worked at all on wikipedia mathematics was a reason I did not really expect texlive to help konqueror. Texlive was the only thing I could think of that made any sense. On Sun, 17 Mar 2019, Gordon Messmer wrote:> The Tex you're seeing is alt-text for (what should be) the SVG images.? > I'm not sure how installing texlive would affect the browser.Me neither, but I was low on things to try that made any sense. How do I get the SVG images? -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." -- someeecards