On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William Stein wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:06 AM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> +1 for inclusion. I think this is worth it, for the reasons given >>> below by Jason. It is almost orthogonal in use to the "Its all text" >>> plugin, which works great for me on WIndows but irritates me on macs >>> for some reason (I uninstalled it, and now I can't remember exactly >>> why). >>> >>> Using Sage for computer labs, I need students to be able to edit a >>> worksheet easily to write up their answers, and I think this will help >>> quite a bit. It might actually make it easier for them to do a good >>> lab writeup than it is in Mathematica (which has some powerful text >>> editing capabilities but I don't think they are easy to use). >> >> [x] yes, include standard >> >> I think this proposed editor fits very squarely into the mission >> statement of Sage, which is "provide a viable alternative to >> Mathematica, etc." >> >> Does tinyMCE have any sort of equation plugin? Have you thought >> about that at all? >> > > No, and no. I haven't thought about it because doing mathematics like > $x^2$ or $$x^2$$ still invokes jsmath, so we still have access to nice > mathematics typesetting. > > It looks like there have been inquiries for such: > > http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=3790 > > I still think that Davide Cervone's javascript equation editor is the > best, by far (see > http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/talks/2006-12-08.IMA/editor.html or the > sage-devel discussion about halfway down here: > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/e23cde79a12fd0aa/65e8aac196f4fe8c)
I really like that editor. It looks gorgeous, and you can type directly in latex if you want. Well, my questions was just inspired by the remark about students typing up their student projects using Sage. > > If we could (optionally) trigger Davide's equation editor when a person > typed a dollar sign, I think that would be perfect for an equation editor. > > Jason > > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
