Copyright © 2007-2009,
John Forkosh Associates, Inc.
email: john@forkosh.com
Mathtex is discussed at
http://www.forkosh.com/mathtex.html.
And you can download its source from
http://www.forkosh.com/mathtex.zip.
Following are some recent changes that may or may not be discussed
there yet.
- 30 Apr 2009 -- Argument to \which{ } directive validated
to detect exploit attempts.
- 06 Mar 2009 -- mathTeX version 1.02 released.
- 05 Mar 2009 -- \environment directive added as a programming
aid to facilitate future enhancements, displaying all http
environment variables passed to mathTeX.
- 18 Feb 2008 -- mathTeX version 1.01 released.
- 16 Feb 2008 --
–DDENYREFERER=\"string\"
or
–DDENYREFERER=\"string1,string2,etc\"
compile switch added. If compiled with it,
mathTeX won't render images for HTTP_REFERER's containing string
(or string1 or string2, etc)
as a substring of their url's.
- 16 Feb 2008 -- more robust test to display the correct
error message when a required dependency isn't installed.
(Occasionally, the "ran but failed" message was
emitted when a dependency was actually "not installed".)
- 20 Oct 2007 -- removed leading and trailing pairs of $$...$$'s
from input expressions, interpreting $...$ as \textstyle and
$$...$$ as \displaystyle (and $$$...$$$ as \parstyle).
Also removed leading and trailing \[...\], interpreting it
as \displaystyle. (Note: \displaystyle is mathTeX's default,
so $$...$$'s or \[...\] are unnecessary. But some people submit
expressions containing them, so they're now interpreted.)
- 12 Oct 2007 -- url "unescape" translation, i.e.,
%20-to-blank, etc, repeated (done twice) for
<form> input. (I'm not sure why this is necessary,
and can't reproduce the problem myself, but am acting
on seemingly reliable reports.)
- 12 Oct 2007 -- special mathTeX directives like \time
are now checked for proper command termination, i.e., non-alpha
character. (In particular, LaTeX \times had been
incorrectly interpreted as mathTeX \time
followed by an s.)
- 12 Oct 2007 -- html &#nnn; now translated during
preprocessing,
e.g., [ or [
becomes [ (left square bracket) before it's
submitted to latex.
- 11 Oct 2007 -- optional \usepackage[arg]{package} argument
now recognized correctly (initial release neglected to
handle optional [arg] following \usepackage).
- 11 Oct 2007 -- mathTeX version 1.00 released.