Re: Cluebat needed: Proper way to reference MathJax.js

[Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 08:01:48PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> | 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.

Can't you make a link in the directory of the file referencing it and use
a non-absolute path, i.e. src="MathJax.js"?  That should work both locally and
through a browser without any configuration, right?  (Except that the directory
must be served by the web server, of course.)

Thanks,
Bas