WordPress Math Publisher Plugin Home Page

Description

The “WP Math Pub” plugin for WordPress, or wpmathpub for short, displays mathematical equations within your posts and pages. It’s a simple plugin that takes advantage of Pascal Brachet’s PHP Math Publisher version 0.3 library – bundled with this plugin.

How it works

Put your plain text mathmatical expressions between custom tags that look like this:

[pmath size=xx]…[/pmath]

The optional size attribute controls how large the images will be displayed. Useful xx integer values range from 8 to 24. Size defaults to 12 when the size attribute is omitted.

I created this plugin by starting with Matteo Bertini’s wpmathpublisher version 1.0.3 WordPress plugin source code. This is why my version is just a plus 1 increment to Matteo’s version and is backward compatible with his tagging scheme too.

Here’s an example:

WordPress code…
[pmath](a^2+b^2)=a^2+2ab+b^2[/pmath]

Results in:

(a^2+b^2)=a^2+2ab+b^2

I built upon Matteo’s tag method by adding an optional size atriibute.

Here is a simple continuation of Matteo’s example:

WordPress code…
[pmath size=16](a^2+b^2)=a^2+2ab+b^2[/pmath]
where:
[pmath size=12]~a[/pmath] is defined as a
[pmath size=12]~b[/pmath] is defined as b

Results in:

(a^2+b^2)=a^2+2ab+b^2

where:
~a is defined as a
~b is defined as b

But perhaps this is a more stunning example:

WordPress code…
[pmath size=8]f(x)~left~ sum{kappa=1}{infty}{delim{[}{{1/(x_kappa)^kappa}}{]}}[/pmath], size=8
 
[pmath size=12]f(x)~left~ sum{kappa=1}{infty}{delim{[}{{1/(x_kappa)^kappa}}{]}}[/pmath], size=12 (same as default)
 
[pmath size=16]f(x)~left~ sum{kappa=1}{infty}{delim{[}{{1/(x_kappa)^kappa}}{]}}[/pmath], size=16
 
[pmath size=24]f(x)~left~ sum{kappa=1}{infty}{delim{[}{{1/(x_kappa)^kappa}}{]}}[/pmath], size=24
 

Results in:

f(x)~left~ sum{kappa=1}{infty}{delim{[}{{1/(x_kappa)^kappa}}{]}}, size=8

f(x)~left~ sum{kappa=1}{infty}{delim{[}{{1/(x_kappa)^kappa}}{]}}, size=12 (same as default)

f(x)~left~ sum{kappa=1}{infty}{delim{[}{{1/(x_kappa)^kappa}}{]}}, size=16

f(x)~left~ sum{kappa=1}{infty}{delim{[}{{1/(x_kappa)^kappa}}{]}}, size=24

Source code listing

 

Code (php)
  1. <?php
  2. /*
  3. Plugin Name: WP Math Publisher
  4. Plugin URI: https://www.embeddedcomponents.com/wordpress/wpmathpub/
  5. Description: Display mathematical equations within your posts. Put your plain text <a href="http://www.xm1math.net/phpmathpublisher/doc/help.html">mathmatical expressions</a> between [pmath size=xx]…[/pmath] tags. The optional size attribute controls how large the images will be displayed. Useful xx integer values range from 8 to 24. Size defaults to 12 when attribute omitted. Pascal Brachet’s PHP Math Publisher <a href="http://www.xm1math.net/phpmathpublisher/">library</a> is included.
  6. Version: 1.0.4
  7. Author: Ron Fredericks, Embedded Components
  8. Author URI: https://www.embeddedcomponents.com/ 
  9.  
  10. Easy install notes:
  11.         Just copy the wpmathpub directory and all its contents into your WordPress plugins directory. 
  12.  
  13. Platforms tested:
  14.         1) Linux Apache web server, php 4.4.4, WordPress 2.0.4 installed in subdirectory,
  15.         2) Linux Apache web server, php 4.4.4, WordPress 2.3.3 installed in root directory.   
  16.  
  17. References:
  18.         Pascal Brachet’s phpmathpublisher
  19.                 Home: http://www.xm1math.net/phpmathpublisher/
  20.                 Usage: http://www.xm1math.net/phpmathpublisher/doc/help.html
  21.         Matteo Bertini’s WordPress plugin called PHP Math Publisher
  22.                 http://www.slug.it/naufraghi/programmazione-web/wpmathpublisher
  23.         Randy Morrow’s WordPress plugin called Axiom
  24.                 http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/axiom/#post-2794 
  25.  
  26. */ 
  27.  
  28. /*************************************************************************************** 
  29.  
  30.     Copyright 2008  Ron Fredericks, Embedded Components, Inc.  (email : ronf@EmbeddedComponents.com) 
  31.  
  32.         GNU General Public License
  33.     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  34.     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  35.     the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  36.     (at your option) any later version. 
  37.  
  38.     This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  39.     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  40.     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  41.     GNU General Public License for more details. 
  42.  
  43.     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  44.     along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  45.     Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
  46. ***************************************************************************************/ 
  47.  
  48. // Include Pascal’s php math publisher library.
  49. define("PHPMATHLIB", ‘phpmathpublisher’, true);
  50. require_once(PHPMATHLIB.‘/mathpublisher.php’) ; 
  51.  
  52. // Overwrite mathpublisher.php’s default pointers to /img and /fonts subdirectories with a flexible relative addressing scheme.
  53. $basedir = ‘/wp-content/plugins/’.basename(dirname(__FILE__), ".php").‘/’.PHPMATHLIB;
  54. $dirfonts=‘.’.$basedir.‘/fonts’;
  55. $dirimg=‘.’.$basedir.‘/img’; 
  56.  
  57. // Create a seperate absolute pointer to the phpmathpublisher /img/ subdirectory because our relative address scheme won’t work when called from the "apply filter" php module within the WordPress Loop.
  58. $abs_dirimg = get_bloginfo(‘url’).$basedir.‘/img/’; 
  59.  
  60. // Returns with <img src="http://www.yoursite.com/yourblog/wp-content/pluglins/wpmathpub/phpmathpublisher/img/some_unique_image.png" /> HTML tag.
  61. // Requires mathfilter function from PHPMATHLIB/mathpublisher.php code.
  62. function wpmathfilter($ascii_math, $size_math)
  63. {
  64.     global $abs_dirimg; 
  65.  
  66.         // Define the default font size.
  67.         if (empty($size_math)) $size_math = ‘12′; 
  68.  
  69.         $phpmath = mathfilter("<m></m>".$ascii_math."", $size_math, $abs_dirimg);
  70.         return $phpmath;
  71. } 
  72.  
  73. // WordPress content filter
  74. function to_phpmath($content)
  75. {
  76.         // Add an new optional font size attribute size=xx to Matteo’s original preg_replace.
  77.         $content = preg_replace(‘#\[pmath(\s+size=|\s?)(\d*)(\])(.*?)\[/pmath\]#sie’, ‘wpmathfilter(\’\\4\’, \’\\2\’);’, $content);
  78.         return $content;
  79. } 
  80.  
  81. // Register our filter, to_phpmath, into the hook routine, the_content, before any priority 6 content processing filters.
  82. add_filter(‘the_content’, ‘to_phpmath’, 5); 
  83.  
  84. ?>

Code Changes

Code (text)
  1. —— Change Log ——
  2.  
  3. On March 17, 2008 create wpmathpub version 1.0.4 plugin for WordPress
  4. Start with Matteo Bertini’s sample code base:
  5.         Plugin Name: PHP Math Publisher
  6.         Plugin URI: http://www.slug.it/naufraghi/programmazione-web/wpmathpublisher
  7.         Version: 1.0.3
  8.         Author: Matteo Bertini
  9.         Author URI: http://www.slug.it/naufraghi/
  10. Changes made to Matteo Bertini’s Version: 1.0.3:
  11.         a) Automate the original site specific configuration
  12.         b) Add optional font size attribute to the [pmath] tag. New tag format: [pmath size=xx]…[/pmath], where xx represents a one or two digit font size.
  13.         c) Maintain backward compatiblility with Matteo’s original tag scheme, [pmath]…[/pmath], define default value for size attribute of 12.
  14.         d) Shorten plugin name and edit code comments
  15.         e) Pull in complete code tree from Pascal Brachet’s current phpmathpublisher offering: http://www.xm1math.net/phpmathpublisher/
  16.  
  17. —- End Change Log —-

Download Plugin

WordPress Math Publisher Plugin is now available directly from WordPress.org’s plugin site: Download it now>

Support: www.embeddedcomponents.com/2008/03/wpmathpubsupport/

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