If enabled, by default loads MathJax from a CDN and forces all equations through MathJax when JavaScript is available -- the image or source form gets used only as <noscript> fallback.
This has a couple of problems for us:
* if scripts are missing -- such as when viewed via MobileFrontend -- you end up with no math at all, as the <script type="math/tex"> bits get ignored but the <noscript> still hides the images.
* while MathJax is loading things, blank spots on the page may appear and stuff jumps around
* if loading new text in via ajax, it doesn't trigger there
Also using some fairly default config, no idea how appropriate it is. Hoping to get some insight from Nageh who's done some of the MathJax work on Wikipedia so far - <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nageh#MathJax_integration_into_stock_MediaWiki>
MathML mode was so incomplete most people thought it simply didn't work (bug 25646).
HTML modes often rendered poorly (eg req bug 24207 to set default to PNG on some sites)
This may cause regressions in that simple "equations" of just variables that came out as HTML
will now render as PNGs that don't get aligned properly with the text baseline. Fixing this is
covered by bug 32694: <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32694> to retrieve the
baseline info from dvipng and position images to fit.
Note that because of the way user options are pulled in to the oarser cache key, some folks
may see cached pages with their old settings until they get redone or they save their prefs
again and have it normalized.
The 'math' table will no longer be created on a default install unless you've explicitly enabled the Math plugin at install time; the usual update.php procedure will add it in.
Postgres, Oracle, MSSQL, and DB2 variants are included -- broken out from the core files -- but have not been tested.
I know there has been some code duplication in parser test infrastructure but could only find one instance of the parser test temporary table setup to remove the 'math' table from (the extension adds it back via the hook). If the phpunit-based runner breaks, please track it down and fix it there too.
* MW_MATH_* constants are now defined in Math extension
* Language::getMathNames() is removed
* mathNames section in message files is removed
* A hardcoded preference override in refreshLinks moved to MaintenanceRefreshLinksInit hook
*coding style tweaks
*documentation
*check for MediaWiki environment in the main setup file
*add extension credits
*add i18n file (only English at the moment); messages from core MessagesEn.php
This is a follow-up to Brion's r85706.
* (bug 14202) $wgUseTeX has been superseded by the Math extension. To re-enable
math conversion after upgrading, obtain the Math extension from SVN or from
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math and add to LocalSettings.php:
require_once "$IP/extensions/Math/Math.php";
This is an initial stab, and a few things remain to be cleaned up:
* messages need to be moved from core to extension
* MW_MATH_* constants should be moved to the extension from core
* old back-compat math names interfaces using those constants should be removed from message files
* classic edit toolbar's math button should be added from the extension (or else dropped) -- currently there's not a clean hook, but could do it by JS
* couple of things like the 'armourMath' function on Language & LanguageConverter may want to be redone just as an unconditional, if that's simpler.
Setting $wgUseTeX alone will no longer have any affect. The var's still there for the moment as a few bits still need to be fully moved out from core.
