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color=#0000ff size=2>I don't know if it is a good solution, but OpenOffice
supports MathML and includes a Math Equation Editor. Also, the W3C's Amaya is
mentioned as a WYSYWIG MathML editor in Wikipedia. Both are free. I've never had
to work with MathML, so can't say how easy they would be for academics to
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color=#0000ff size=2>Paul</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Tenney
Julian<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 06, 2008 8:03 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Xerte
discussion list<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Xerte] Maths
symboles<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=198155714-06052008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Also, the issue is how to allow people to easily enter /
create the expressions? Using this stuff is alright for developers, but how to
easily allow an academic to write out a calculus or matrix problem? This
is not a Xerte specific problem - very few tools have any ability to do this.
Has anyone come across a good solution? How have people dealt with it
before?</FONT></SPAN>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Paul
Swanson<BR><B>Sent:</B> 06 May 2008 15:41<BR><B>To:</B> Xerte discussion
list<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Xerte] Maths symboles<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>You can display a pretty fair number of math symbols
using HTML. I just tested displaying the Sum (sigma) symbol, and infinity
using &#8734; and &#931;, respectively, in Xerte and both symbols
were displayed. There are many more symbols available, but I only tested those
two. You have to use the numeric entity reference, the named references don't
seem to be supported.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>More HTML Math Entity symbols at: <A
href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html#h-24.3.1">http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html#h-24.3.1</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Tenney
Julian<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:44 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Xerte
discussion list<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Xerte] Maths
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=766384007-06052008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Funnily enough we have the same issue on a current
project. We want to develop content for engineering that needs to make a lot
of use of mathematical expressions. Currently the only way to do it in Xerte
is to use some other tool to render the expression and then take a
screenshot and use the image in Xerte. This is fine if the number of
expressions is relatively low, but in our case we'd like to dynamically
generate the expressions and render them at runtime. There is no MathML
support in Flash natively, and I've not found a good component for rendering
MathML or LaTeX that I could wrap. If anyone is aware of a good MathML
/ LaTeX component, please let me know. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>J</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Omar
Hamed<BR><B>Sent:</B> 06 May 2008 06:07<BR><B>To:</B>
xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Xerte] Maths
symboles<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma color=#000000 size=2>How one can write
mathematical expressions in a content of a LO?</FONT></DIV><FONT
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<DIV>"Better learning will not come from finding better ways for the teacher
to instruct but from giving the learner better opportunities to construct.
And this conviction has driven our continuing quest for new building
materials or new uses of old ones. (Papert, 1990, p. 3)"</DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT color=#800000><FONT color=#800000>elearning</FONT> is the way
to constructionism</DIV>
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href="http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/OmarHamed">http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/OmarHamed</A>
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