I was concerned about the fact that my hosting company doesn't support xml-rpc, although they do support PEAR. So, I contacted Daniel and he responded promptly to inform me that the BlogPing plugin requires PEAR. With this good news I installed the plugin, followed the instructions, and after saving an article in the chosen section, Voila! -- there was a message on the screen informing me that pings were being forwarded to a number of services.

Thanks Daniel for a plugin that is straightforward, and works!

Works like a charm for all 7 of my Joomla! sites.

Thanks and well done!

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.