[Building Sakai] Sakai & MathJax

[Matthew Jones]

Agreed, this was discussed but there were a few technical issues that
stopped us, from what I remember:

1) We ideally don't want the 99%+ of the pages scanned for Latex that
probably won't have it for the 1% that do. We were thinking of some way with
the CKEditor to have a plugin where a user could enter their Latex math
equations, then it would put a span with a math class around it (similar to
how jsMath pre-processed), so that the pre-processor could check the page
for these classes and only target them rather than scanning all documents. A
plugin would also make it more obvious to the user that math was supported
and give them a place to entire it.

2) We were unable to find a really good wysiwyg editor plugin editor at the
time, forcing users to edit their math outside of the app or *know* Latex.
The conversation about an editor kind of sidetracked the discussion on
rendering.

3) In testing this out, or internal filter would corrupt some of the latex
(by removing some of the code) and didn't allow the MathML by default. So
some additional work was needed on that which we didn't have time to finish
working on at the time.

MathJax definitely looked like a great project to me and certainly would be
nice for someone to revisit.

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Zhen Qian <zqian2004 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, Hylke:
>
> Great to hear from you! The idea of integrate of Sakai with MathJax is
> definitely of great interest to Sakai community and has been discussed a
> couple of times. You can find the latest discussion on this following wiki
> page[1].
>
> Last time we tried is with MathJax v1.0. I believe there is a concern with
> the library loading time. I haven't tried the lastest v1.1 yet. I am glad to
> report any new findings afterwards.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Zhen
>
> --------------------------------
> Zhen Qian
> Software Developer
> University of Michigan
> 734.647.6343
> ---------------------------------
>
> [1]
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/PED/Math+Editing+Ideas+for+Sakai
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Hylke Koers <hylkek at mathjax.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> My name is Hylke Koers and I work on MathJax (www.mathjax.org), a new
>> open source web technology that displays mathematics on the web. I am
>> reaching out to you because I believe that MathJax will be of interest to
>> Sakai. I hope this mailing list is the appropriate venue.
>>
>> In a nutshell, MathJax is an open source JavaScript technology that
>> dynamically renders mathematical expressions on a webpage, smoothly
>> integrating it into the surrounding text on all levels of zoom and across
>> viewing devices. MathJax is easy to use for both authors and readers: it
>> supports LaTeX and MathML, works on all modern browsers (without plug-ins),
>> tablets, and smartphones, and it can be used on any HTML page by including a
>> single line of code in the HTML header linking to the public MathJax CDN.
>> Besides math display, MathJax also lets users copy and paste math into
>> calculation applications, and helps to make mathematics accessible to
>> readers with print disabilities.
>>
>> MathJax is rapidly becoming the new standard for quality display
>> mathematics in HTML. Initiated by Design Science, the American Mathematical
>> Society, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, it is
>> already in use by leading publishers and platforms. Some places where you
>> can see MathJax in action:
>> - Stack Exchange:
>> http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/22954/proving-that-xy-x-y-being-x-and-y-two-strings
>> - OpenStudy OCW Scholar, discussion platform for MIT OpenCourseWare:
>> http://bit.ly/hYnLBe
>> - Connexions: http://cnx.org/content/m36168/latest/
>>
>> Please feel free to contact me at hylkek at mathjax.org of you would like to
>> hear more about our project; it would be a pleasure to follow up with more
>> details.
>>
>> Thanks, and best wishes,
>>
>> Hylke Koers
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