render math equations for websites latex

Question

I\'m looking for a standalone math equation renderer that generates a gif or png file. It should be able to take equation input from a URL. It has to work on a webserver, pr

Answer 1

You can use some web-services that do this, like MimeTeX or MathRan.

Answer 2

I know this doesn't directly answer your question, but most people don't think about this first time, so you might want to consider it.

You can render the LaTeX client-side with javascript libraries such as jsMath, it is nice because it introduces no overhead to your server, and can be dynamically edited.

Answer 3

tex4ht renders all math as gifs. it comes with miktex. you can use it from the command line. it will also dump to math ML.

Answer 4

Latex2PNG does the trick. Moreover, its source is very simple (< 100 lines), so you can easily see how to build one yourself. If you want to build such a thing on a Microsoft stack, you'll need to install latex on Windows (not too hard), or write some code to dispatch the render requests to a unix machine with latex.