27 Jun
2003
27 Jun
'03
2:49 p.m.
John Forkosh writes:
As per your README.uploads instructions...
- what you've uploaded mimetex.zip (version 1.01, or 3.14 if you prefer, to replace support/mimetex/mimetex.zip)
- which CTAN node you've uploaded to ftp.tex.ac.uk
- where you want the files to go support/mimetex Please REPLACE all existing files (mimetex.zip and README) in support/mimetex (please unzip mimetex.zip README and place this separate copy of README alongside mimetex.zip in the support/mimetex directory)
- what licensing conditions you apply to your software GNU GPL
- brief summary of what your upload is intended to do. (a) New features: optional lowpass text anti-aliasing for gif images, and optional HTTP_REFERER check blocks use from unwanted domains. (b) Also: several (very obscure:) bug fixes. From original submission... MimeTeX parses LaTeX math expressions, and emits either mime xbitmaps or gif images of them, rather than TeX dvi's. Therefore, mimeTeX's images can be directly used by html documents in the form, e.g., <img src=../cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?f(x)=int_{-infty}^x~e^{-t^2}dt border=0 align=absmiddle> without intermediate dvi-to-gif conversion, and without storing lots of resulting little gif files, one file for each converted expression. This makes your html documents more readable and easily maintained. See http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html#examples for examples demonstrating mimeTeX's features and usage. MimeTeX isn't primarily meant for latex2html-like tasks where you're maintaining native LaTeX documents that are later redistributed in several formats, including html. Rather, mimeTeX is primarily meant to help maintain native html documents containing math. In this sense it's a kind of lightweight alternative to MathML, with the advantage that mimeTeX preserves LaTeX syntax. Similar non-MathML packages, like textogif and gladTeX, require setup procedures that use TeX to help generate external gif images of your equations, which are later included in your html document as it's being rendered. MimeTeX, as far as I know, is the only such non-MathML package that has its own built-in parser and rendering engine, entirely independent of TeX, and therefore requires no setup procedure or external images whatsoever. It renders realtime, on-the-fly images directly from LaTeX math expressions embedded in html documents.
i've installed the (revised) file as requested. thanks for the upload.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team