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) 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
