Maybe you are creating a wiki for your company's human resources department and you come across an extremely tough formula for figuring out a retirement package. Or better yet, maybe you are developing a wiki to share the next greatest computer algorithm with the world. These examples may be on completely different ends of the spectrum, but they show us one thing, we never know when we are going to need to insert a mathematical formula into our wiki. Lucky for us, MediaWiki gives the ability to insert formulas into our articles.
MediaWiki uses a subset of TeX markup for mathematical formulas. The formulas are shown in a graphical format using PNG files when they are displayed in a wiki. In order to create mathematical markup with TeX we have to insert the syntax for the symbol between the<math>
and</math>
tags. Extra spaces and line gaps will be ignored inside the tag.
Unfortunately, the<math>
tag does not work by default in MediaWiki. We will have...