[Using Sakai] for equations in sakai course

[Charles Hedrick]

Rutgers has created a plugin for FCK that lets you add and edit JSmath. We'd be happy to contribute it, but doing so is enough work that I don't want to do it if it isn't going to be accepted. The problem is that minor changes are required to a couple of Sakai-wide Javascript files to make sure that the JSmath is properly interpreted. We've used an approach that only affects the page is JSmath is actually used on a page. (I believe the scanning may actually be confined to the DIVs in which it is used.)

The main disadvantage I can see is that JSmath uses a linear representation, either TeX or something ad hoc. Most faculty in disciplines that use equations know the TeX representation, but students may not.


On Oct 27, 2010, at 4:43 AM, Eixarch Ferrer, Ramon wrote:

> Hi David,
>  
> You missed an option to edit math equations in Sakai.
>  
> 4.- WIRIS editor. A Plugin for FCKeditor www.wiris.com/demo-java/pluginwiris/fckeditor_wiris/
>  
> PS: the UPV is using WIRIS in it’s Moodle platform.
>  
> Cordialment, Cordialmente, Best regards,
>  
> Ramon Eixarch
> Maths for More - WIRIS
> ramon at wiris.com
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> twitter: twitter.com/wirismath/
>  
> De: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] En nombre de DAVID ROLDAN MARTINEZ
> Enviado el: miércoles, 27 de octubre de 2010 9:27
> Para: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Asunto: Re: [Using Sakai] for equations in sakai course
>  
> Hi all,
>  
> I’ve reviewed all the mails I have from this and others lists and have found the following:
> Solution 1:
> Use Google Services to convert Tex to an image which uses an undocumented feature of Google charts, also in use by Google docs.
> Put the following code into the source of the FCK area <img src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=tx&chl=Tex goes here">.  
> An example is: <img src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=tx&chl=f_p  = 3\sqrt {area}  = 3\sqrt {2 \times 10^6 }  = 53800Hz;\;53.8kHz">
> Please review Google usage policy at http://code.google.com/apis/chart/
> Additional variables available per the Google Chart specs
> Solution 2:
> Use MimeTeX. See attached document.
> Solution 3:
> There is one third party plug-in for the FCK editor called WebEQ. 
>  
> Hope this helps.
>  
> David
> 
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