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Fixing the site’s appearance in Internet Explorer

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I just spent the day in the library, where I used Internet Explorer on a public terminal. I knew that IE did not render CSS properly, but until I tried to use this web site for several hours in IE, I had no idea how bad things were. I’ve hacked the CSS so that it displays reasonably well in IE now. I hope this didn’t mess things up for other browsers. Grr… » [Expand post] [Permalink]

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Wikindx macro plug-in for WordPress

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In this previous post, I had actually made use of a small plug-in I had written for WordPress, which creates a macro for pulling bibliographical information from Wikindx, which I use to manage my bibliography.

The plug-in is rather simple, but since a web search turned up nothing similar (which is kind of surprising), and someone might find it useful, I thought I’d post it here… » [Expand post] [Permalink]

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Using the Ajaxified Expand Post Now plug-in with Rob Miller’s Footnotes plug-in

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This is a little technical post for anyone who is interested in using the Ajaxified Expand Post NOW plug-in[1] and Rob Miller’s Footnotes plug-in[2] together. On this website, I’m running AEPN version 0.7 beta 7, Footnotes version 1.2.1, and WordPressμ version 2.8.2, which are the latest versions as of this writing.

The AEPN plug-in truncates a post and appends an… » [Expand post] [Permalink]

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Using jsMath with WordPress, bbPress, and Wikindx

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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\(\)… » [Expand post] [Permalink]

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