Well, here we go. I can tell you one thing, as nice as this Wiki looks (and it really does), I am thoroughly befuddled. I spent a loooong time searching around for how to post a comment. I am sure it is UNBELIEVABLY EASY AND IDIOT-PROOF to post a comment, thanks to, no doubt, some totally clever and excellent design, but all that is for nothing if a new user can't quickly find out how to do it...

Intuitiveness is in the eye of the beholder, and authors are notoriously blind to the non-intuitiveness of their creations (for pretty obvious reasons, I think). Therefore, I hope you will take this comment not as a whine, but as a helpful bit of advice. (Very helpful, IMHO.)

OK, I still don't know how to post a comment, so I hope what I'm doing right now is it.

Now, my comment, or rather, my question is: what can of support does Wikka have for math formulae? Can it handle LaTeX? (I know that DarTar is a LaTeX maven, so I thought that, of course, Wikka would support LaTeX, but I was not able to find any explicit mention of it in the Features page.

kj
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Comment by BrianKoontz
2006-09-09 19:17:08
kj, there should be a link at the bottom of the page called "Add Comments" that...well, allows you to add comments! [Upon further reflection, it appears that "Add Comments" only shows up when there are no initial comments...after the first comment is added, this link changes to "Display Comments", which isn't all that intuitive. Maybe it should be changed to "Add/Display Comments"!]
Comment by DarTar
2006-09-09 19:37:15
Re: comments, what Brian says, and as to the link text - point taken, will be fixed in 1.1.7.
Note that due to experimental antispam tools installed on this server, posting a comment sometimes might not work, in which case you'll just need to go back to the original page, copy the comment and refresh the page before reposting it. We hope we'll be able to improve these tools so as to reduce the number of false positives caught in the antispam trap.

Re: math formulae, there are three ways - to my knowledge - of embedding LaTeX in a webpage:
1. using MathML as an output: the only serious and accessible approach, but browser support is horribly poor.
2. using GD-generated images, à la Wikipedia, but this relies on GD and LaTeX being available on the server;
3. through JSMath, which - although heavily relying on javascript (hence producing non-accessible output) - doesn't have any special server-side requirements. For a proof of concept and basic integration with Wikka see: http://wikkawiki.org/JSMathIntegration

Hope this helps.
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