A Yaki plugin to render mathematical equations using l2p http://redsymbol.net/software/l2p/

equations.py

'''
Equations.py
A Yaki plugin to render mathematical equations using
l2p http://redsymbol.net/software/l2p/

Pradeep Gowda <[email protected]>
2009-04-21
'''       
import yaki.Engine, yaki.Store
import urlparse, re
from BeautifulSoup import *
from pygments import highlight
from pygments.lexers import *
from pygments.formatters import *
import md5   
import os
import subprocess

class EquationsWikiPlugin(yaki.Engine.WikiPlugin):
    def __init__(self, registry, webapp):   
        self.webapp = webapp
        registry.register('markup',self, 'math','equation')
                 
    def create_image(self,fname, text):
         cmd = 'l2p -i \'%s\' -o %s' %(text, fname) 
         proc = subprocess.Popen(cmd,
                           shell=True,
                           stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                           )
         stdout_value = proc.communicate()[0]      
         if len(stdout_value) > 0:
             return False
         else:
             return True
            
        
    def get_image_url(self, text):
        g = md5.new(text)                
        c = self.webapp.getContext()
        fpath = os.path.join(c.media, 'eqns')
        name = '%s.png' % (g.hexdigest(), )    
        fname = os.path.join(c.siteinfo['docroot'] ,'eqns', name)
        url = c.siteinfo['siteurl'] + fpath + '/' + name
        if not os.path.exists(fname):    
            if not self.create_image(fname, text):
                url =  'http://pradeepgowda.com/media/img/calendar.png'
        return url

    def run(self, serial, tag, tagname, pagename, soup, request, response):  
        imgurl = self.get_image_url(tag.contents[0])
        result = '<img src="%s" alt="%s" valign="center" />' % (imgurl, tag.contents[0])
        tag.replaceWith(result)
        return False