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Physikerwelt 4c9dc2f08e Breakdown of texvc texvc had several tasks in the past: 1 checking the input 2 convert MediaWiki custom syntax to standard LaTeX 3 run LaTeX 4 convert dvi2png This change provides a simplified version that performs only steps 1+2. This is required to avoid security problems with tools like MathJax, especially if these tools are run at the server-side. Bug: 54624 Change-Id: I1650e6ec2ccefff6335fbc36bbe8ca8f59db0faa		2013-12-14 18:34:15 +00:00
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README

== About texvccheck ==

texvc takes the user input validates it and replaces MediaWiki specific functions.
Input data is parsed and scrutinized for safety.

texvc was written by Tomasz Wegrzanowski for use with MediaWiki; it's
included as part of the MediaWiki package (http://www.mediawiki.org) and is
under the GPL license.

texvc-lite, was extracted from the original texvc program in 2013 by
Moritz Schubotz and uses only the sanitizing and customization part.

The list of all commands can be viewed by browsing the source files.
Most commands are listed at
http://sdrv.ms/15w2gVw
there is also a tool for convenient whitelisting of special commands
that are used in local wikis.

Please report bugs at: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/
with "MediaWiki extensions" as product and "Math" as component.

== Setup ==

=== Requirements ===

OCaml 3.06 or later is required to compile texvc; this can be acquired from
http://caml.inria.fr/ if your system doesn't have it available.

The makefile requires GNU make.

In Ubuntu Precise, all dependencies can be installed using:

  $ sudo apt-get install ocaml

=== Installation ===

Run 'make' (or 'gmake' if GNU make is not your default make). This should
produce the texvccheck executable.

By default,
MediaWiki will search in this directory for texvc, if you moved it elsewhere,
you'll have to modify $wgTexvc and set it to the path of the texvc executable.

== Usage ==

Normally texvc is called from MediaWiki's Math modules and everything
Just Works. It can be run manually for testing or for use in another app.

=== Command-line parameters ===

    texvccheck '\TeX input string'

Be sure to properly quote the TeX code!

Example:

    texvc "y=x+2"

=== Output format ===

The output is the sanitized and customized tex string.

texvc output format is like this:
    +%s		ok
    S		syntax error
    E		lexing error
    F%s		unknown function %s
    -		other error

== Hacking ==

Before you start hacking on the math package its good to know the workflow,
which is basically:

1. texvc gets called by Math/Math.body.php (check out the line begining with "$cmd")
2. texvc does its magic, which is basically to check for invalid latex code.
3. texvc takes the user input validates it and replaces MediaWiki specific functions