Render Math VoodooPad Plugin


The Render Math VoodooPad Plugin uses LaTeX to render math in your VoodooPad documents.

NOTE: Render Math VoodooPad Plugin is no longer actively supported. However, the source code is available below and anyone who is willing to maintain it may take over the project and I'll link to them from here.

It depends on having TeX installed. It's designed to support several possible teTeX installations, but the plugin needs only know where pdflatex is. If pdflatex is installed in one of usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/pdflatex, usr/local/teTeX/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current/pdflatex, /opt/local/bin/pdflatex, /sw/bin/pdflatex, or /sw/bin/pdflatex, the plugin should work. If you don't have teTeX installed, I recommend the TeX i-Package found at http://ii2.sourceforge.net/tex-index.html.

To install Render Math, choose Get Info on VoodooPad and under the Plugins section click "Add..." and then select RenderMath.vpplugin.

Render Math can be used in two ways. You can type LaTeX math, select the text, and then run the Render Math command from the Plugin menu. Or, to avoid selecting text, you can prefix your math with a dollar sign, $. When you reach the end of your math, choose the Render Math menu item or use its keyboard shortcut, Command-4, to render all the math between the current typing cursor position and the previous $. Note that you currently can't have '\$' render; the plugin will catch that $ and render the math after it.

If you type something that LaTeX doesn't understand or contains an error, the plugin will eat your math and return either nothing or the image of the last math you typed. This let's you know when you typed incorrect math without disturbing your work as much as an error box would.

Render Math has a number of problems that aren't problems with Render Math, but problems with VoodooPad. Render Math will make undo act funny with the text you typed just before using it and it will cause the text typing attributes to reset (so Render Math will clobber whatever font style you're currently using). These things will probably be fixed in a future release of VoodooPad.

Download: RenderMath.zip
Source: RenderMathSource.zip

Release History

Release 3:

Fixed a bug with support for different teTeX installations. Added \usepackage{amssymb}.

Release 2:

Should now support teTeX installations other than the TeX i-Package, including Fink and Darwin Ports.

Initial Release:

Supports basic math mode LaTeX in VoodooPad.

Posted: Sun - November 27, 2005 at 09:36 AM        

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