[Tickets #10227] Re: Support LaTeX Rendering

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/10227
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  Ticket             | 10227
  Updated By         | Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
  Summary            | Support LaTeX Rendering
  Queue              | IMP
  Version            | Git master
  Type               | Enhancement
  State              | Accepted
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> (2011-06-22 04:57) wrote:

>> This can easily be accomplished by creating a Horde_Mime_Viewer driver.
> If I understand correctly what a Mime driver is, this would enable  
> Horde to display entire LaTeX files. Or do you mean one could write  
> an alternative for the standard plain driver to handle LaTeX?
>
> To be clear: I was thinking of parsing standard math environments  
> like $...$ or \[...\] using some backend.

A Mime Driver takes input data, and outputs a (normally) text/html  
representation of the contents.

>> We already support syntax highlighting.  See the syntaxhighlighter
>> driver (horde/config/mime_drivers.php).
> Indeed, thanks for the pointer. But again, it "only" highlights  
> syntax in attached files, doesn't it?

Yes.  But that's what you asked for in the original ticket posting.  A  
syntax highlighter is not supposed to do anything else (e.g. render  
the data).