From: Jonathan Dowland <jon@dowland.me>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:37:13 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: teximg plugin: more precise documentation for the dependencies.
X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/commitdiff_plain/e165fd9a07077c90ef185b0c82fc15829c866e82

teximg plugin: more precise documentation for the dependencies.
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diff --git a/doc/plugins/teximg.mdwn b/doc/plugins/teximg.mdwn
index 866b1ee05..98f01faaa 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/teximg.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/teximg.mdwn
@@ -4,7 +4,12 @@
 This plugin provides a [[ikiwiki/directive/teximg]] [[ikiwiki/directive]],
 that renders LaTeX formulas into images.
 
-Of course you will need LaTeX installed for this to work.
+You will need LaTeX installed for this to work, specifically something
+providing `latex` in the path. You will also need either `dvipng` or a
+combination of `dvips` and `convert` from ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick.
+
+On Debian systems, the relevant package names are `texlive-latex-base`
+and either `dvipng` or `graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat`.
 
 ## configuration