LATEX in Msn Messenger

[ed84c]

Wouldnt that be great? Anybody know of any plugins to do such?

[Klaynos]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim-latex

 

gaim plugin...

[EvoN1020v]

Thanks a bunch!! It's a big lifesaver!! Now I can explain complex things clearly to my friends!!

 

The file appears to be a .bz2 file. What program can I open it with?

[Klaynos]

Thanks a bunch!! It's a big lifesaver!! Now I can explain complex things clearly to my friends!!

 

The file appears to be a .bz2 file. What program can I open it with?

 

 

7zip

 

NOTE: this is a plugin for gaim not for msn' date=' gaim is an IM client that will connect to msn amoung others.[/b']

[ed84c]

Thats for linux.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

And Windows.

[EvoN1020v]

Should I download gaim to make the plug-in work? Do it require a resignation (username and password)?

[ed84c]

Is there not a plugin for MSN Messenger?

[Dak]

Not unless microsoft have made one.

 

Should I download gaim to make the plug-in work? Do it require a resignation (username and password)?

 

gaim is a multi-protocol chat client, which means that yes, you do need a username/pass, but you can use your msn one (or yahooIM, aim, etc)

 

But the gaim plug-in won't work on msn, so yeah you have to download gaim.

 

Im curiouse: does the reciever need the plug-in aswell, or just the sender?

[EvoN1020v]

Yeah, I'm curious about Dak's question. "Does the reciever need the plug-in as well, or just the sender?"

 

Because of both sender and reciever need both of the plug-ins, that will be too much work, as both need to get gaim, then the plug-ins, and so on.

 

So..?

[Klaynos]

Someone should read the docs and tell us, I suspect that both require it but I don't know, it might just send images or something weird... or do some snazzy styling :|

[Dak]

hmm.. Id also guess that both need it, but i cant find out from anywhere.

[Dave]

You'll both need gaim for it to work. The rendering is done on the client-side. For example, if I type the message $$\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}$$ then on my screen it will get rendered; on the remote client, without gaim, it will just show up as text.

 

In case you guys are interested (and have KDE), Kopete comes with a latex plugin pre-installed which uses the same $$...$$ notation as gaim. You just need to go into "Configure plugins..." and enable it. The rendering really is very good, and it looks pretty snazzy.