[Using Sakai] for equations in sakai course

[Matthew Jones]

I agree with this, but it should be captured and written about in
confluence, email is a bad place for this discussion.

Looks like there's already a raw page started here based on an email awhile
ago. I have a lot more emails on this subject.

I got a lot of these added and rolling here as we've had a number of
internal and external discussions.

http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/PED/Math+Editing

-Matthew

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Mathieu Plourde <mathieu at udel.edu> wrote:

> I also think MathJax could be an option. We had a discussion on list a
> couple of months ago, and it seems to work well in FCKEditor.
>
> http://www.mathjax.org/
>
> Mathieu
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Charles Hedrick <hedrick at rutgers.edu>wrote:
>
>> 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
>> +34 932384684
>> +34 649752179
>> skype:   ramoneixarch
>> 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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