Bug#830780: ITP: texvc -- validates and converts LaTeX expressions into HTML, MathML or PNG

[Kunal Mehta <legoktm@member.fsf.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Kunal Mehta <legoktm@member.fsf.org>

* Package name    : texvc
  Version         : 3.0.0+git20160613
  Upstream Author : MediaWiki developers <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
* URL             : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Texvc
* License         : GPL-2
  Programming Lang: OCaml
  Description     : validates and converts LaTeX expressions into HTML, MathML or PNG

texvc takes LaTeX-compatible equations and produces formatted output in HTML,
MathML, and (via LaTeX/dvipng) rasterized PNG images.

Input data is parsed and scrutinized for safety, and the output includes an 
estimate of whether the code is simple enough that HTML rendering will look
acceptable.

texvc was written for math support in MediaWiki, but can be used standalone.

This package was formerly in Debian as "mediawiki-math-texvc" but as it does
not depend upon MediaWiki, it is being renamed to "texvc". The source package
is still called "mediawiki-math" because texvc's source is bundled inside the
Math MediaWiki extension. A "mediawiki-extensions-math" package may be
introduced in the future.

This package will be maintained by the MediaWiki packaging team, but in reality
that is just me right now.