Re: Cluebat needed: Proper way to reference MathJax.js
On 13 July 2015 at 01:40, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
| Hi Dirk,
|
| Quoting Dirk Eddelbuettel (2015-07-12 23:36:43)
| > An infrequently updated package has doxygen documentation with lots of
| >
| > <script src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js";></script>
| >
| > which lintian complains about as the page goes to a remote site. But
| > exactly what string am I suppose to place in src="..."?
| >
| > I can't just to do
| >
| > <script src="file://usr/share/javascript/mathjax/MathJax.js"></script>
| >
| > as that would presume a global filesystem view of the webbrowser.
| >
| > And given our different web servers, is there a common root, say,
| > /javascript/, for all of them?
| >
| > Quick help would greatly appreciated. Please do CC me as I am not
| > currently subscribed to d-devel.
|
| To make it work only when served by a webbrowser, use this:
|
| <script src="/javascript/mathjax/MathJax.js"></script>
I think this is what I had in mind, thanks!
| ...and make sure javascript-common is installed and in use by the
| web-server (all libjs-* packages should recommend it, and it should be
| enabled by default for apache).
Hm, libjs-mathjax does not. So I'll add two depends.
| To make it work only offline, use this:
|
| <script src="file://usr/share/javascript/mathjax/MathJax.js"></script>
Icky that it is either or!
| To make it work both offline and offline, use this:
|
| <script src="/usr/share/javascript/mathjax/MathJax.js"></script>
|
| ...and edit /etc/apache2/conf-available/javascript-common.conf or
| /etc/lighttpd/conf-available/90-javascript-alias.conf to use
| "/usr/share/javascript/" as base path.
I can't easily do that from my documentation package, can I?
| There's a bug about that issue: https://bugs.debian.org/553173
|
| And an old thread:
| https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-javascript-devel/2013-August/005894.html
|
|
| Please consider sharing your opinions at either of those places.
I don't do that much web programming within Debian and don't feel I can add
anything. I would really like for this to have a clean and generic solution.
But sadly wishing alone does not make it so -- some problems are hard.
Thanks for your help!
Dirk
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