You can install a copy of Webtex on your own machine and run it on your own documents. The current version has been developed only for the “brockton” demo and will probably fail on any other documents, but maybe you’ll get lucky!
The parser also only works on Firefox for now (see the associated bug report). We hope to fix this soon, of course. In the meantime, it’s not too hard to install Firefox!
First you have to install node.js. Their download page has packages for every major operating system if you’re not sure how to get it installed.
Download the version 0.0.1 release of Webtex and unzip it somewhere on your machine.
Start up a local webserver by running the command node local-server.js &
in the unzipped Webtex directory. It should print the message listening on
port 17395.
Test functionality by visiting the address http://localhost:17395/render-preparsed.html?brockton.json. This should pop up the “brockton” demo pretty quickly. Unless you’re using Safari, sorry.
For a more in-depth test, exercise the parser by visiting
http://localhost:17395/parse-and-render.html?brockton.zip.
This will take about 10 minutes to run due to some serious inefficiencies in
the current design (bug report).
You can monitor progress by opening up the Firefox developer console in the
Tools → Web Developer → Web Console menu.
If you’re feeling really adventurous, you can zip up your favorite document
and figures into a file myfile.zip and drop it into the unzipped Webtex
directory, then visit
http://localhost:17395/parse-and-render.html?myfile.zip.
This will almost surely encounter an error since the preview release is only
tested on “brockton”. The error will only be shown on the Web Console since
that feature isn’t ready yet either (bug
report).
If you’re so adventurous and resourceful that you try compiling your own document and run into an error that you want to fix … well, first of all, wow! Second, you’ll need to fork the code so that you can rebuild the distributed files and develop a solution.