Warning

This repository is deprecated and no longer maintained. The upstream project by John Forkosh is available at http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html

mimetex

A fork of mimetex by John Forkosh.

MimeTeX is a CGI program that parses a LaTeX math expression and immediately emits the corresponding GIF image. It does not require TeX or its fonts — it is a single standalone CGI binary with no external dependencies.

Status

This fork is no longer maintained. For active alternatives consider:

• MathJax — JavaScript-based LaTeX rendering in the browser
• KaTeX — Fast client-side LaTeX rendering
• latex2svg — LaTeX to SVG conversion

Quick Start

# Compile with anti-aliased GIF output (recommended)
cc -DAA mimetex.c gifsave.c -lm -o mimetex.cgi

# Or without anti-aliasing
cc -DGIF mimetex.c gifsave.c -lm -o mimetex.cgi

# Or for MIME xbitmaps
cc -DXBITMAP mimetex.c -lm -o mimetex.cgi

Move mimetex.cgi to your server's cgi-bin/ directory and mimetex.html to htdocs/.

See README for the full original documentation.

License

GPL v3 or later. See COPYING.