Re: WebCat2b15MacPlugin - showing [math]
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texte = >>How do i display the results of the calculations inside a [math] context? >>It doesn't appear on the page ... :) > >I can only guess that if your math context doesn't appear, then there's >some kind of syntax error (or divide by 0) in the equation. Rather than >blowing up, it just doesn't display anything. > >[math]1[/math] will display 1 > will output which hides the results inside an HTML >comment.No, I'm sorry to tell you this, but this is *not* what is happening. And if I have my syntax wrong, then please tell me what's wrong with it, here are two easy examples that fail to display on-screen [math]1+2+3+4[/math]... and ...[search db=xxx.db&nefieldToBeSummeddata=0] [math][founditems][fieldToBeSummed]+[/founditems]0[/math] [/search] These examples display absolutely nothing on my web page, but as soon as I remove the [math] context, the inner stuff shows up as expected.The reason I discovered this *bug* is because I was trying to create a WebDNA solution for Dean Smith who requested an example of how to get a [sum] from a field in his database. I thought I might like to do that on my own site, but when I started trying to get the stuff inside a [math] context to display on screen, I discovered that it would *not* display ...By the way, I tried every plugin since b10, thinking that a new bug might have been introduced recently, but none of them display the stuff inside the [math] contexts.I think there's something wrong with the plugins ...Sincerely, Ken
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>>How do i display the results of the calculations inside a
[math] context? >>It doesn't appear on the page ... :) > >I can only guess that if your math context doesn't appear, then there's >some kind of syntax error (or divide by 0) in the equation. Rather than >blowing up, it just doesn't display anything. > >
[math]1[/math] will display 1 >[math]1[/math]> will output which hides the results inside an HTML >comment.No, I'm sorry to tell you this, but this is *not* what is happening. And if I have my syntax wrong, then please tell me what's wrong with it, here are two easy examples that fail to display on-screen
[math]1+2+3+4[/math]... and ...[search db=xxx.db&nefieldToBeSummeddata=0]
[math][founditems][fieldToBeSummed]+[/founditems]0[/math] [/search] These examples display absolutely nothing on my web page, but as soon as I remove the
[math] context, the inner stuff shows up as expected.The reason I discovered this *bug* is because I was trying to create a WebDNA solution for Dean Smith who requested an example of how to get a [sum] from a field in his database. I thought I might like to do that on my own site, but when I started trying to get the stuff inside a
[math] context to display on screen, I discovered that it would *not* display ...By the way, I tried every plugin since b10, thinking that a new bug might have been introduced recently, but none of them display the stuff inside the
[math] contexts.I think there's something wrong with the plugins ...Sincerely, Ken
Kenneth Grome
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