Dear Bernard,
Thanks for the note and links. I was not very aware of GIAC. It could be
a useful thing for MathBook XML authors to have available.
Have you considered using MathJax within your HTML output? It too is
Javascript and can be configured to execute locally.
Rob
On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 12:07:13 AM UTC-7, parisse wrote
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> Thanks for the clarifications.
> It has some common features with what I'm exploring by combining latex,
> hevea, giac and HTML5, but also big differences. In my current prototype,
> you add \input{giac.tex} in the tex file preamble, this defines a few new
> latex commands like \giaccmdmath{factor}{x^4-1}. If you compile with hevea
> instead of latex or pdflatex, you get a HTML output where the input x^4-1
> can be replaced by the reader, pressing Enter or clicking factor will
> evaluate the command. Similar to your sage-enabled book.
> The main difference is that the source code is a latex file, it's
> straightforward to add interactivity to existing files. Moreover, the HTML
> output does not depend on a server to execute the commands. The javascript
> compilation of giac (giac.js) is downloaded once, then it executes locally
> all commands (tested with Firefox, Safari and Chrome, for IE plot outputs
> are not rendered correctly).
> Compiling requires hevea <http://hevea.inria.fr> and giac.tex
> <http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/%7Eparisse/giac/giac.tex>, see
> example of commands in test.tex
> <http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/%7Eparisse/giac/test.tex> or a more
> complete example I started a few weeks ago by adapting a course in French
> <http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/mat249/mat237.html> (replace
> html by tex in the link above to see the source code).
> There are probably some ideas that could be shared between the two
> projects. For example, your output could also use giac.js for computation
> and be server-independant.
>
>
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