On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 06:35:50PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 02:21:26PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Monday 06 June 2005 01:11 pm, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > > > Make a version which generates the image on the sending side? > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > That would be a *very* nice plugin. The bad thing about the current > > > plugin isn't only the security concern: it requires that the recipient > > > have the plugin installed. If the image is generated on the sending > > > side, it solves the security problem, and also makes it possible to > > > send (La)TeX fragments to arbitrary recipients with no additional > > > hassle. I think this is worth considering. > > > > But then you can only use the plugin if you can send images, which is almost > > never the case for me (image-sending never seems to work even if I'm using > > AIM, maybe because I'm behind a firewall). > > This I don't know anything about, but it seems like a good thing to fix > instead of shoehorning LaTeX into the textual portion. Or you could shoehorn images into the textual portion, with uuencode. See X-Face. Note that such systems must traditionally use the most arcane and absurd image format possible. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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