WordPress Mathematical Equations Update

Following on from my original article on publishing equations on the web, there is a new method which may be useful to those information retreival specialists or publishers of blogs which use mathematics. Enter PHPMathpublisher a useful conversion tool that creates a png image of the equation from a simple code which has the advantage that it will display identically in most browsers.

To use the script you need to have the GD library for PHP. Examples are included below:

Equation Syntax

All equations start with <m> and end with the tag</m>

Separators for 3d-mathematics are held within {}.

Subscripts: _

Superscripts ^

An extensive list is available on the website.

WordPress Plugins

Two WordPressPlugins  are  available to add PHPMathPublisher.

The results look pretty good and the range of mathematics which can be expressed is quite wide. With the Wordpress plugin equations are formed within pmath tags.

code: <m>S(f)(t)=a_{0}+sum{n=1}{+infty}{a_{n} cos(n omega t)+b_{n} sin(n omega t)}</m>

Example 2: 

I did notice that there is no support for bold characters which are often used to denote matrices and vectors.  Also there is no dell operator or hbar which is important to physicists. That being said, it is open-source code and I had a look at the code and it does not seem as though it would be difficult to add these to the package.