This does not seem to work.
I tried to use
$\body{b}$
$\orientation{a}$
$\Position{a}{b}{c}{d}{r}$

but the output is just "baabcdr"

Tinne

PS: sorry for the top-posting but my email client just gave up and now I have to use the wonderful outlook web app :s
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Van: Peter Soetens [peter [..] ...]
Verzonden: donderdag 26 januari 2012 15:08
Aan: Tinne De Laet
CC: orocos-dev [..] ...
Onderwerp: Re: [Orocos-Dev] using latex macros in the wiki

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Tinne De Laet
<tinne [dot] delaet [..] ...> wrote:
> On Thursday 26 January 2012 14:04:48 Peter Soetens wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Tinne De Laet
>>
>> <tinne [dot] delaet [..] ...> wrote:
>> > On Tuesday 24 January 2012 23:35:24 Peter Soetens wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Tinne De Laet <
>> >>
>> >> tinne [dot] delaet [..] ...> wrote:
>> >> > On Monday 23 January 2012 17:13:14 Peter Soetens wrote:
>> >> > > Hi Tinne,
>> >> > >
>> >> > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Tinne De Laet <
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Tinne [dot] DeLaet [..] ...> wrote:
>> >> > > > Hi all,
>> >> > > >
>> >> > > > Apparently there are some possibilities to use latex macro
>> >> > > > in a
>> >> > > > mediawiki
>> >> > > > (see for instance
>> >> > > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiTex/Installati
>> >> > > > on).
>> >> > > > Can we also use latex macros on the orocos wiki and how
>> >> > > > can I
>> >> > > > configure this?
>> >> > >
>> >> > > We're not running official Mediawiki, but a 'DruTex' plugin
>> >> > > for the
>> >> >
>> >> > Drupal
>> >> >
>> >> > > Mediawiki emulation. DruTex should be able to cover most
>> >> > > needs.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > It seemed like this Drutex-enabled mediawiki was not enabled
>> >> > > for
>> >> > > book-aka-wiki pages. Can you check again if it works now ?
>> >> >
>> >> > I think you misunderstood my question.
>> >> > I indeed found out that I had to change the input format to
>> >> > Mediawiki + Drutex
>> >> > to use latex code (using the $ $ notation).
>> >> > I however want to do something more advanced with a macro.tex
>> >> > file.
>> >> > This macro.tex file is a latex file defining some latex commands
>> >> > e.g
>> >> >
>> >> > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>> >> > % POSITION
>> >> > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>> >> > % position: position of point #1 belonging to body #2 with
>> >> > respect to
>> >> > point
>> >> > #3 belonging to body #4 expressed in orientation frame #5 (leave
>> >> > empty
>> >> > if
>> >> > not
>> >> > needed)
>> >> > \newcommand{\Position}[5]
>> >> >
>> >> > {\textrm{Position\ifthenelse{\equal{#5}{}}{}{Coord}}\left(\fixedTo
>> >> > {\poin t{#1}} {#2} , \fixedTo{\point{#3}}{#4}
>> >> > \ifthenelse{\equal{#5}{}}{}{,\orientation{#5}}
>> >> > \right)}
>> >> >
>> >> > This helps to use a nice latex notation for our wiki explanations.
>> >> >
>> >> > So to use this file we should have to make DruTex understand that
>> >> > it has to include the macro.tex file.
>> >> > In the url I mentioned before they seem to do something similar
>> >> > for
>> >> > mediawiki
>> >> > extension WikiTex.
>> >>
>> >> I copy-pasted the above latex snippet in the latex template on the
>> >> server (used behind the scenes to render your code). Does the macro
>> >> work for you now ?
>> >
>> > No.
>> > The result of $\Position{a}{a}{a}{a}{a}$ is just aaaaa.
>> > But this is probably cause since the code snipset uses some other macro
>> > commands that I did not provide.
>> > My macros are attached to this mail.
>> >
>> >> You can post a file with all the macros you require and then I can add
>> >> these too.
>> >
>> > Can I add them myself or do I always have to bother you?
>>
>> We need to upload them to the server as a file. The current file has
>> these contents:
>>
>> \documentclass[10pt,notitlepage]{article}
>>
>> % good math support
>> \usepackage{amsmath, amsfonts, amssymb}
>>
>> % UTF-8 support
>> \usepackage{ucs}
>> \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
>>
>> \pagestyle{empty}
>>
>>
>> \begin{document}
>> DRUTEX_REPLACE
>> \end{document}
>>
>> I can put your files alongside it. How do you want me to modify the
>> above code snippet such that your macros/files are correctly included
>> ?
>
> before \begin{document}
>
> add
>
> \input{macro.tex}
> \input{macroGeometricPrimitives.tex}
> \input{macroSemantics.tex}
> \input{macroCoordinateRepresentations.tex}
> \input{macroSemanticOperations.tex}
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tinne
>
> PS: I am already discussing with the colleagues in our robotics group what
> would be the best way to use the latex macros on the wiki. Probably we will
> adapt the command-names to avoid name clashes ...
> If some one has opinions about this, please let us know.

Okay, I uploaded these files and modified the template code. If
there's a new version of a file, let me know.

Peter