Hi Peter, This is of great help. I think you have given me enough pointers to take this forward. Appreciate your help Thanks Debashish
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 2:56 AM Peter Pinch <[email protected]> wrote: > As it says in the docs > <https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/edx-partner-course-staff/en/latest/exercises_tools/problem_in_latex.html#problem-written-in-latex>, > this is a prototype feature and not supported by edX. In particular, it > relies on a web services run by a faculty-member at MIT. The service was > down, but should be up again now. If isn’t working for you please let us > know if a) you can reach > https://studio-input-filter.mitx.mit.edu/latex2edx?raw=1 and b) what > errors you are getting from the server. > > The server code is open source and is available from > https://github.com/mitodl/latex2edx_xserver . If you rely on the server > being available, you may want to try running it yourself. > > If you’re working with small snippets of Latex, you might find it easier > to work with MathJax, which is supported by edX. See > https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/edx-partner-course-staff/en/latest/exercises_tools/mathjax.html > for details. > > Some course teams at MIT like to maintain their entire course (or chapters > of it) in Latex. Most of them use the code at > https://github.com/mitocw/latex2edx which lets you compile Latex into OLX > offline for importing into edX. > > Sorry I can’t be of more help, > Peter Pinch > MIT Open Learning > > On Sep 21, 2018, at 5:15 AM, Debashish Ghosh <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Sorry to repost on this question. Is anybody in this group using Latex? We > are still having issues with connecting to the latex2edx server. Should we > contact the developers directly. I can still include Latex using Advance > settings so I am thinking edx still supports Latex? If not should we use > any other Maths compiler to display the symbols correctly. > Thanks > Debashish > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 7:30 PM Debashish Ghosh < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> We run openedx Eucalyptus and have been using Latex for math compliations >> for the last couple of years. Suddenly the latex compiler has stopped >> working. We are getting "cannot connect to latex2edx server" whenever we >> are adding a new Problem and hitting "Save and Compile to edx XML" inside >> the Latex compiler. Anybody facing this issue? I have enabled the "Enable >> Latex Compiler" to True before creating the new Problem. Any help would be >> greatly appreciated >> Thanks >> Debashish >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "General Open edX discussion" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/bd933d57-5acf-4b66-826b-92aa5e2ed5a4%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/bd933d57-5acf-4b66-826b-92aa5e2ed5a4%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "General Open edX discussion" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/CAN15aH4E%3DNgHsCtcnsGgVp5eOBJD-GYa24Oy%3DfUzqr3GzaXXuw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/CAN15aH4E%3DNgHsCtcnsGgVp5eOBJD-GYa24Oy%3DfUzqr3GzaXXuw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "General Open edX discussion" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/DBA7AA46-0035-4103-8551-5704AB0C338A%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/DBA7AA46-0035-4103-8551-5704AB0C338A%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General Open edX discussion" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/edx-code/CAN15aH6UfSBtPF9ooj_sKaoL7yAhmeRQOAXbTo3drZX9UDYDDA%40mail.gmail.com.
