There is a WYSIWYG equation plugin for TinyMCE that has a demo page at http://www.imathas.com/editordemo/demo.html .
On Firefox it uses MathML, and on other browsers it uses a graphics images fallback approach. --Peter On Oct 14, 7:38 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.htmlor the > > sage-devel discussion about halfway down here: > >http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/e23cde...) > > 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 Washingtonhttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
