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  • #2
    Michael Collins
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 1,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭Michael Collins


    We're on the same page TheBody, I wrote this on the Science Moderators forum after reading your post:
    The site we use for LaTeX parsing (turning the LaTeX equations into images) seems to be down, and has been down for a while. Here's the site in question: http://www.mathtran.org/

    And here's an example of non-working LaTeX code(!): [latex] e^{i\pi} = -1 [/latex]

    This is a big problem since it not only means we can't use LaTeX, but all previous LaTeX images in hundreds of posts are also not showing up, removing a valuable resource.

    Is it possible to move this to a native boards.ie server? Irrespetive of whether the Mathtran service comes back, I think it would be better to host this ourselves if it's at all possible. It's not used very often, so I can't see it adding a huge burden on the server workload.

    Comments welcome!


  • #3
    TheBody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,657 ✭✭✭TheBody


    I noticed that latex is working again. Thanks to all involved in fixing this.


  • #4
    Michael Collins
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 1,855 Mod ✭✭✭✭Michael Collins


    TheBody wrote: »
    I noticed that latex is working again. Thanks to all involved in fixing this.

    Yes, good work to all involved.

    I still think that we should consider hosting this ourselves to guard against future issues such as this.


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