Hello You may know already that Google pays students to write open-source software, as part of the Google Summer of Code (GSOC).
You may not know that this this year there is, sort of, a jQuery GSOC project! And it involves the (La)TeX typesetting system for mathematics. (Even if you don't care about math, perhaps read on. The project is also about a JavaScript library for using a web service, and the editing of structured content.) Here's some background. I'm a TeX expert, and have developed http://www.mathtran.org, which makes TeX typesetting available as a web service. This year the TeX Users Group (http://www.tug.org) is a GSOC mentoring organisation, and I suggested a project to write JavaScript to use MathTran on web pages. Christoph Hafemeister applied, and the project was accepted. Christoph and I then decided to use jQuery as the starting point for our work. You can read more about it at http://mathtran.wordpress.com, and you can try out an autocomplete demo at http://www.mathtran.org/toys/chafemeister/autocomplete.html. We're making use not only of jQuery but also some plugins and other code: fieldSelection: http://plugins.jquery.com/node/1202 markitup editor: http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/examples/html/ What we're doing with autocomplete is a little special, and so we are not incorporating existing autocomplete code (but we are learning from it's ideas). If there's time we'd like to look at a MathTran plugin for an HTML editor. The WYM editor is a prime candidate, in part because it is based on jQuery. http://www.wymeditor.org/ If you're interested, or want to help out, please do contact me. -- Jonathan http://mathtran.wordpress.com
