On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:07 PM, Muhammad Mohsin Khan Niazi <[email protected]> wrote: > As far as problem 1 is concerned what do you think of editor given at bottom > of this page.
That looks like an interesting start. I think there are many usability issues with that particular implementation, e.g., the way moving the mouse over the tabs changes the buttons is unnerving. I would also definitely want to watch new users try it out and see what happens. For somebody who knows latex, that editor at the bottom of the page that you pointed to is AWESOME, since you can literally just type latex (e.g., \frac) and it does the right thing -- for an expert it is freakin' nice. By the way, here's another relevant page that I found quickly with Google that shows some: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/57068/wysiwyg-latex-editor-for-maths -- William > > On Sunday, March 22, 2015 at 11:29:48 PM UTC+5, William Stein wrote: >> >> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Muhammad Mohsin Khan Niazi >> <[email protected]> wrote: can you plz check this page and >> > If rendering latex is the only thing we have to do... >> >> I've kind of lost the thread of this discussion. In any case, here >> is a very concrete problem >> to be solved: >> >> PROBLEM 1: Make it easy for people who do not know LaTeX to create >> mathematical formulas anywhere in SageMathCloud. In particular, when >> editing Markdown files, LaTeX documents, etc. >> >> One approach to problem 1 would be to put a button in the latex (and >> markdown) editor that pops up MathQuill (or maybe something else), >> let's the user edit a formula graphically, then inserts it in the >> document. This is a highly nontrivial problem though, since probably >> MathQuill only supports a small subset of what one would reasonably >> like to do. However, you could have a first pass at a solution, then >> hopefully add a lot of additional functionality over time. >> >> Another problem, assuming that the above problem gets solved, would be to: >> >> PROBLEM 2: Make it easy for people who don't know Python/Sage/Sympy to >> create symbolic expressions. In particular, when working on Sage >> worksheets, IPython notebooks, etc. This could even get included >> http://sagecell.sagemath.org/, so there's a new button that lets the >> user enter a formula without having to know the syntax of Sage/Python, >> etc. >> >> This is also a highly nontrivial problem though, since probably >> MathQuill only supports a small subset of what one would reasonably >> like to do. Here, Sage has tons of special functions, etc., (like >> prime_pi), which you would want to expose somehow (searchable or a >> menu). >> >> The discussion about converting between latex, sage and other formats >> is just confusing things, just because there are random operations one >> might ask about doing. Instead, let's focus on the problems that need >> to get solved. Maybe you can propose a plausible path to implementing >> a solution to one or more of them. >> >> -- William >> >> >> >> -- >> William (http://wstein.org) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-gsoc" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-gsoc. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-gsoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-gsoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
