Last modified: 2013-09-17 08:35:10 UTC
Hello, most of my courses are made using LaTeX and PSTricks (I teach physics). I'd like to help the french Wikiversity by giving some of them. Unfortunately MediaWiki doesn't seems to support PSTricks. I really think that it will be very usefull to add such a feature because if now I send a .png or a .jpeg file (for a schematic) it will be very difficult for others users to modify this schematic. So the solution is to provide an interface for vector graphics. Moreover PSTricks is very usefull as it can be very easily modified by hand (contrary to SVG... even if I'm not opposed to SVG). Moreover many extension such as pst-circ http://pstcirc.free.fr are usefull see for example http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/ pst-plot % plot functions using RPN pst-infixplot % plot functions without RPN pst-math % add some mathematical functions pst-coil % coil, zig-zag pst-eucl % euclidian geometry, rotation, ... http://dominique.rodriguez.9online.fr/pst-eucl/ http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-eucl/ pst-node % http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pst-node.html pstricks-add % http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pstricks-add/ pstcol and pst-osci % for drawing oscilloscope % http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-osci/ Providing PSTricks will help Wikipedia and Wikiversity to have schematics that can be modified. Regards
For some LaTeX / PStricks extension for physic chemistry see for example : http://melusine.eu.org/syracuse/pstricks/pc/ You can also think about supporting other kind of textual vector graphic format such as : - METAPOST http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaPost - PGF and TikZ http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf - SVG - Asymptotes http://www.dse.nl/~dario/projects/asylatex http://asymptote.sourceforge.net see for example http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2007-1/editor http://www.mathematex.net/phpBB2/comparaisons-graphiques-asymptotes-pstricks-tikz-et-autres-vt3806.html
