[Moin-user] Can't get ASCIIMathML to work...

Thu Feb 8 15:25:29 EST 2007

I'm having a devil of a time trying to get ASCIIMathML working in my
MoinMoin installation.  I'm running v 1.3.4 (yes, I know, horribly
outdated).  I've installed ASCIImathML.js with the relevant changes to
the AMdelimiter[12] variables:

 var AMdelimiter1 = "$$", AMescape1 = "\\\\\\$\\\\\\$";
 var AMdelimiter2 = "$$", AMescape2 = "\\\\\\$$", AMdelimiter2regexp = "\\$$";

I tweaked wikiconfig.py to load ASCIImathML.js:

    html_head = u'''<script type="text/javascript"
src="wiki/ASCIIMathML.js"></script>'''

I prodded wikiutil.py a bit:

    % diff -u wikiutil.py~ wikiutil.py
    --- wikiutil.py~        2005-03-08 06:21:06.000000000 -0600
    +++ wikiutil.py 2007-02-08 13:58:03.000000000 -0600
    @@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@
	 output = []
	 # later: <html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\">
	 output.append("""<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
    -<html>
    +<html xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
     <head>
     %s
     %s
    @@ -1164,7 +1164,7 @@
	 body_onload = keywords.get('body_onload', '')
	 if body_onload:
	     bodyattr.append(''' onload="%s"''' % body_onload)
    -    output.append('\n<body%s>\n' % ''.join(bodyattr))
    +    output.append('\n<body%s onLoad="translate()">\n' % ''.join(bodyattr))

	 # Output -----------------------------------------------------------

I tried to use the sciki project's wiki_with_math markup.  That just
made every page appear as if I'd quoted the contents with {{{ ... }}}.

I'm stumped.  Is there anyone out there using ASCIImathML that can
describe in simple terms what I need to do?

Thanks,

Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com