LaTeX in Word Server
LaTeX in Word is a GPL-licensed tool that allows equations to be used in Microsoft Word documents. The client-side of the program is implemented as VBA macros and can be found in a separate package. In contrast, this package contains the server-side files for LaTeX in Word. It is recommended that you read the Word document in the client-side package before creating your own LaTeX in Word server. For casual use, the default server may be sufficient. The client-side project repository can be found at:
https://github.com/Engineero/latex_in_word
Briefly, installation consists of installing PERL, PHP, LaTeX, dvipng, and ImageMagick on a *nix web server. The LaTeX in Word web server can then be cloned with:
git clone https://github.com/Engineero/Process_LaTeX.git
This will create a "Process_LaTeX" subdirectory immediately below the current directory. Hence, the current directory should be one that can be accessed by web users. For example, on some systems this directory could be "public-web" or one of its subdirectories. The permissions of the extracted files will then have to be changed so that web users can execute the scripts. For example, in a particular installation that treats anonymous web users as being in the same group as the files' owner, the following permissions were used:
drwxr-xr-x .
-rw-r--r-- Delete_Temporary_Files.php
-rw-r--r-- LaTeX_Converter.pl
-rw-r--r-- Process_LaTeX.php
-rw-r--r-- template.tex
drwxrwxr-x temporary
The additional 0-byte file "temporary/placeholder" exists only to ensure that the "temporary" directory is stored in the tarball, so this file can be deleted after extraction. Since the other files are written in PERL, PHP, and LaTeX, there is no separate source code.
Windows Version
A Windows modification was submitted by jlh on 2016/05/12 running on Windows with:
- XAMPP for Windows 5.6.14
- MiKTeX 2.9 (latex, dvipng)
- Strawberry Perl (64-bit) 5.22.0.1 (perl)
- ImageMagick-6.9.2-Q16 (convert, identify)
Executables of the packages mentioned above must be on the system's search path.
Help Wanted
If you would like to contribut to LaTeX in Word, we are looking for somebody who can help get the Process_LaTeX server operational on github.io. Contact Engineero if you are familiar with github.io and would like to help out.
Licensing
Complete license information can be found in the file "gpl.txt" stored in this package. A list of recent changes can be found in "changelog.txt". Updates and additional information can be found on the GitHub project page: