[Using Sakai] for equations in sakai course

Wed Oct 27 10:19:41 PDT 2010

Sure...  I'll get right on it.  :-)

I mean-- Yes, good!  I started that Confluence page, "Math Editing," for this very purpose, and I will add this latest thread to it.  If you could add your own archived e-mail, that would be great.

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From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Jones [jonespm at umich.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 10:33 AM
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Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] for equations in sakai course

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<mailto: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<mailto: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/<http://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
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De: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org<mailto:sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org> [mailto: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
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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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