alert user to incorrect usage of typogrify

render_math/Readme.md

@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ in math that could not be rendered by MathJax. The only option was to ensure
 that Typogrify was disabled in the settings.
 
 The problem has been recitified in this plugin, but it requires [Typogrify version 2.04](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/typogrify)
-(or higher). In fact, this plugin will not work with lower versions of Typogrfrify.
+(or higher). If this version of Typogrify is not present, the plugin will inform that an incorrect
+version of Typogrify is not present and disable Typogrify for the entire site
 
 Usage
 -----

render_math/math.py

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ from pelican import contents
 import re, os
 
 # Global Variables
-_TYPOGRIFY = False  # used to determine if we should process typogrify
+_TYPOGRIFY = None  # if typogrify is enabled, this is set to the typogrify.filter function
 _WRAP_LATEX = None  # the tag to wrap LaTex math in (needed to play nicely with typogrify or for template designers)
 _MATH_REGEX = re.compile(r'(\$\$|\$|\\begin\{(.+?)\}|<(math)(?:\s.*?)?>).*?(\1|\\end\{\2\}|</\3>)', re.DOTALL | re.IGNORECASE) #  used to detect math
 _MATH_SUMMARY_REGEX = None  # used to match math in summary
@@ -278,9 +278,8 @@ def process_content(instance):
         ignore_tags = [_WRAP_LATEX,'math'] if _WRAP_LATEX else ['math']
 
         # Exact copy of the logic as found in the default reader
-        from typogrify.filters import typogrify
-        instance._content = typogrify(instance._content, ignore_tags)
-        instance.metadata['title'] = typogrify(instance.metadata['title'], ignore_tags)
+        instance._content = _TYPOGRIFY(instance._content, ignore_tags)
+        instance.metadata['title'] = _TYPOGRIFY(instance.metadata['title'], ignore_tags)
 
     if math:
         if _MATHJAX_SETTINGS['auto_insert']:
@@ -324,8 +323,24 @@ def pelican_init(pelicanobj):
     try:
         if pelicanobj.settings['TYPOGRIFY'] == True:
             pelicanobj.settings['TYPOGRIFY'] = False
-            _WRAP_LATEX = 'mathjax' # default to wrap mathjax content inside of
-            _TYPOGRIFY = True
+            try:
+                from typogrify.filters import typogrify
+
+                # Determine if this is the correct version of Typogrify to use
+                import inspect
+                typogrify_args = inspect.getargspec(typogrify).args
+                if len(typogrify_args) < 2 or 'ignore_tags' not in typogrify_args:
+                    raise TypeError('Incorrect version of typogrify')
+
+                # At this point, we are happy to use Typogrify, meaning
+                # it is installed and it is a recent enough version
+                # that can be used to ignore all math
+                _TYPOGRIFY = typogrify
+                _WRAP_LATEX = 'mathjax' # default to wrap mathjax content inside of
+            except ImportError:
+                print "\nTypogrify is not installed, so it is being ignored.\nPlease install it if you want to use it: pip install typogrify\n"
+            except TypeError:
+                print "\nA more recent versio of Typogrify is needed for the render_math module.\nPlease upgrade the typogrify to the latest version (anything above version 2.04 is okay).\nTypogrify will be turned off due to this reason\n"
     except KeyError:
         pass