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LaTeX for Joomla! 
Version
0.1 (beta) (last update on Jun 8, 2008)
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3
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License
GPL
Non-Commercial
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Date Added
7 June 2008
LaTeX for Joomla! is implemented as a content plugin which only needs one or more filenames in an article. Each file will be read and converted to HTML on the fly. Even the use of images or tabular is/will be possible.
Please note: the current release is still in development. But if are interested in using this plugin, please help me finding bugs, missing functions and give me suggestions on how to improve it. You may contact me to get infos about using this plugin - documentation is not available yet.
bynamaquaguy on April 3, 2009
First, let me thank the developer, Tobias Gesellchen for his prompt response to my e-mail requesting help. Once he pointed me in the right direction, I was able to get some action from the plugin. However, the results are disappointing.
For one thing, Tobias suggests that the *.tex file should only contain the part inside the document environment, since the plugin does not "understand" the LaTeX document headers. This is a serious limitation, which renders the plugin virtually useless. I noticed in my test that it also failed to see the bibliography environment -- another serious shortcoming.
Perhaps the most serious shortcoming of all, is the fact that the pluging does not understand math equations. Herein lies the strength of LaTeX, and any plugin or extension that claims to place LaTeX in Joomla!, would have to address this issue.
In summary, what the LaTeX for Joomla! extension does, is to copy the plain text in the LaTeX file, into a Joomla! article -- something that I can quite easily do myself, manually.
For one thing, Tobias suggests that the *.tex file should only contain the part inside the document environment, since the plugin does not "understand" the LaTeX document headers. This is a serious limitation, which renders the plugin virtually useless. I noticed in my test that it also failed to see the bibliography environment -- another serious shortcoming.
Perhaps the most serious shortcoming of all, is the fact that the pluging does not understand math equations. Herein lies the strength of LaTeX, and any plugin or extension that claims to place LaTeX in Joomla!, would have to address this issue.
In summary, what the LaTeX for Joomla! extension does, is to copy the plain text in the LaTeX file, into a Joomla! article -- something that I can quite easily do myself, manually.