Just wanted to say thanks -- I really like this latex plugin better than the system I had kludged together before (on a different forum software). Yes, everyone, it does work out of the box if you have the required software installed on your server. The quickmenu looks great, can't wait to get it operational with the upcoming fix.

Hi, thanks for the plugin!

I am new to all this... I have been trying to install vlatex, but I am stuck in step 4. I'd really appreciate it if someone could give me a hand.

Here's what I have done so far:
Step 2 - I have upload the vLaTeX directory to the forum's root (where I have vBulletin installed, I guessed).
Step 3 - I changed the permissions of the pics and temp folders.
Step 4 - The instructions say "Import the product XML in your admin control panel. If you're upgrading, set "Allow Overwrite" to yes.", so I have put the product-pod_vlatex.xml file in the folder "/admincp/".

I then went to AdminCP > Settings > Options, but there is no "vLaTeX - Math Parsing", so I cannot go on.

What have I done wrong? Thanks!

Go to the admin cp, "Plugins & products" > "Manage products", then click in [Add/Import product]. Select the product product-pod_vlatex.xml in your HDD.

Pod, just wanted to thank you for this mod. Looks and works great so far through my testing. I know that you had posted that the fix was almost ready a couple of weeks ago and I was wondering if there was an estimated release date expected? The forum I will be using this on is scheduled to open soon and I'm really hoping to have full functionality at that time.

Thanks again for the great product!

I do have a fix for the JS side of things (the thing that makes the buttons work), that part is done and reasonably well tested.

But after that, I found that vB changed something in the CMS that completely kills the comments editor with this mod enabled; the quick-menu should not appear in there, as it only appears in full editors, but somehow the method to detect what kind of editor we are dealing with no longer works in the CMS.

I have yet to study vB's code in order to know what to do. In the worse case, I might have to rethink the whole quick-menu system. In the best case there'll be another variable I can check and it'll be easy. So I can't say how much It'll take.

Unfortunately, I have no holidays in august, so I have little time for my hobby projects. Good news is that today I just finished another hobby project, and I promise I won't do any other thing before vlatex is ready to go with the new editor. So can't say a date, but hopefully won't take long.

If you are interested in the forum only version of vb, then this problem should not trouble you at all. I'm attaching to this post the updated JS file that should work for any vb4.x forum-only. Just overwrite the old file whit this one, but be warned to try this in a testing environment, never test it live before confirming it works for you.

Would like to give the update JS file a shot, but I didn't see an attachment here.

after i installed

i tried [TEX]E = m c^2[/TEX] and i got this on my post >>> [LaTeX ERROR: Compile failed]

also icons not appear , look at the attachment in botom of this post.
If there is any problem with my hosting, what kind of files do they have to install to get this working,
i am with hostgator , is there any hostgator member who have same problem,

Please guys let me know , i really need this product

Regards

Requirements

This mod relies on your server having available the following external programs. They are pretty standard in most linux distributions, so hosts can install them easily (if they want to, some don't). Please, check your server meets this requirements (or ask your host to install the programs) before trying to use vLaTeX:

- latex: the LaTeX compiler. Check the TeXlive distribution (http://www.tug.org/texlive/).

- dvips: converts the DVI file to PS. Usually included in all latex distributions.

- convert: as it name suggests, converts between a large number of graphic files. Belongs to the ImageMagick package. Needs ghostscript.

- identify: among other things, measures the size of image files. Also belongs to ImageMagick

- Ghostscript: PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer. Is called by convert in order to handle ps files.




can u be more specific what kind of scripts they have to install , because hostgator admins are givin me hard time on this.

These are not "scripts" per se. They are compiled programs that must be installed on the server. I suspect that many shared hosts, such as hostgator, will not have them all installed, even though none of them are particularly uncommon.

That said, any remotely competent admin should know what those programs are, and they should be able to give you a simple yes or no if they're available. If they're not, I would seriously doubt that they're going to install a new program on the server just for one customer, and it might be against their rules for security reasons.

I upgraded to the latest version of VBulletin and the quick menu no longer works