Using jsMath with WordPress, bbPress, and Wikindx

There’s really no special trick to using jsMath with WordPress, bbPress, or Wikindx — just follow the installation instructions.

Essentially, you just need to add the following code in the header of your web site (where “path.to” should be replaced with the URL to your installation of jsMath):

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://path.to/jsMath/easy/load.js"></script>

For this web site, the above line was added to the headers of each of the template files of the component software packages.

One minor trick to getting jsMath to work with Wikindx is that all special characters have to be escaped properly\(\). For example, to get the title of Mario Szegedy’s paper^[1] on quantum walks to display correctly, as seen here, I had to enter the title as:

Spectra of Quantized Walks and a \$\sqrt{{}\delta\epsilon{}}\$-Rule

That is, where the LaTeX math syntax requires a left curly bracket, you enter “{{}”, and where it requires a right curly bracket, you enter “{}}”. The title then appears as in the footnote below.

I have created a setup help page on the wiki to record details such as these. Also, see this forum post for some macros defined for use on this site.

– davinci