[Building Sakai] math editor for fckeditor

[Qian, Zhen]

John,

I think equation support can be divided into two parts: (1) the ability to render good quality image for equation in browsers and (2) the ability to support creating/editing LaTex/MathML equation.

As for part (1), I think the trend now is to use MathJax display engine(http://www.mathjax.org/), which support all browsers and both LaTex and MathML. Here is a previous discussion thread for replacing jsMath with MathJax: http://old.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--MathJax-to-replace-jsMath-in-rWiki--td29464530.html

For part (2), I haven't checked their licences or prices yet. Some plugins render equation images and embed into FCKEditor. DragMath (http://www.dragmath.bham.ac.uk/integrations.html) can output LaTex formatted string, which can be displayed by MathJax afterwards.

Part 1 seems to be a low-hanging fruit, and I hope that can solve at least 50% of user needs. Equation support is on our top to-do list here. We'd love to hear suggestions from other teams.

Thanks,

- Zhen
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From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of John Bush [john.bush at rsmart.com]
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 11:33 AM
To: sakai-user; Sakai-Dev
Subject: [Building Sakai] math editor for fckeditor

Is anyone doing anything to bring a math editor into sakai?  I know
about jsmath for rwiki and sferyx for melete, but something that plugs
into the fckeditor is the ideal, since that give the most widespread
use.  I stumbled across I decent blog that talks about some of the
options for moodle, but seems relevant to us as well.

http://www.stattler.com/blog/latex-equation-drupal-blog

This look like the best contender, as there is already a fckeditor
plugin for this tool, check it out:

check this out, http://www.codecogs.com/pages/forums/pagegen.php?id=1639

Is anyone using this or an alternative, care to share experiences ?

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John Bush
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