[Xerte] Re: Formulae and Latex - idiot's guide?

Julian Tenney Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
Fri Jan 20 11:41:13 GMT 2012


Check the logs, I can't remember,

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 20 January 2012 11:41
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Formulae and Latex - idiot's guide?

Which pages/code in particular?

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 20 January 2012 11:31
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Formulae and Latex - idiot's guide?

I did that in the new code. If you've got old code it won't be doing it,
obviously. But the code in the svn does export languages.

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 20 January 2012 11:30
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Formulae and Latex - idiot's guide?

*mumbles about no one telling me the language folder was a requisite for
exports to work*

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>
wrote:
> A few points of clarification....
>
>
>
> 1. It's Tom Reijnders who's now hosting the latex code
>
>
>
> 2. When updating XOT installations it may not be just the 
> xmlengine.swf that needs updating and not just in one place either...
>
>
>
> I have some answers and some questions:
>
>
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> XMLEngine.swf and MainPreloader.swf need to go in the root and 
> modules/xerte/scorm/
>
> the languages folder needs to be in the root along with it's contents 
> (this is not for latex but to avoid having undefined showing in the 
> interface
> menus)
>
>
>
> However having put all this in place on the itq install that Alistair 
> is
> using:
>
>
>
> The languages folder isn't being exported and so the LO doesn't finish 
> loading (adding the languages folder to the exported folder fixes 
> that)
>
> The latex isn't displaying in the exported lo
>
>
>
> Does there need to be a second languages folder somewhere or updated 
> export code?
>
> Likewise other files to enable latex to work offline?
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Ron
>
>
>
>
>
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave 
> Burnett
> Sent: 20 January 2012 11:05
> To: Xerte list
>
>
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Formulae and Latex - idiot's guide?
>
>
>
> Hi Alistair.
>
>
>
> The issue is that the original host for the latex functionality has 
> ceased to exist.
>
> Ron is now hosting that function.
>
>
>
> The pointer to the original site was hardcoded in the engine,
XMLEngine.swf.
>
> That is what need to be updated with a version that points to the 
> correct source.
>
>
>
> Check to see if all the XMLEngine.swf files on your local machine 
> match the latest one (the one on the server it looks like).
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Alistair.McNaught at HEAcademy.ac.uk
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:54:41 +0000
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Formulae and Latex - idiot's guide?
>
> Hi Ron
>
> Many thanks for speedy response.
>
>
>
> 1) Now it works fine on the server BUT
>
> 2) Local version after download doesn't work - doesn't render any 
> latex but leaves blank spaces.
>
>
>
> Is that the export function that needs tweaking or something different?
>
>
>
> A
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron 
> Mitchell
> Sent: 20 January 2012 10:47
> To: 'Xerte discussion list'
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Formulae and Latex - idiot's guide?
>
>
>
> Alistair
>
> I was updating the itq installation as your message came in - try 
> again I think you'll find it works now?
>
>
>
> However could you try exporting that and viewing locally and answer 
> the
> following:
>
>
>
> 1. Does it still display the latex when viewed locally?
>
> 2. If it displays is it ok or is it jumbled in any way e.g. spacing 
> between lines not quite right?
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Ron
>
>
>
> BTW sandpit not yet updated - need to contact David about something.
>
>
>
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair 
> McNaught
> Sent: 20 January 2012 10:33
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Formulae and Latex - idiot's guide?
>
>
>
> Hi all
>
> I previously creates a learning object at
> http://itq.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_59 to show teaching staff how 
> to create formulae using simple Latex expressions.
>
>
>
> I know there have been issues with the site that was used to host the 
> Latex rendering script and we now have a new solution but I'm not sure 
> how to implement the new solution so that my old learning object 
> (above) will correctly display the formulae now.
>
>
>
> I've probably missed some important comment in a thread I skimmed too 
> quickly but any pointers as to how to 'redeem' old formulae rich 
> learning objects will be very welcome.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> A
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