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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/">http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I don’t think there is anything ‘funny’ about the latex service we use. It is a third party service though, but we are working to implementing it ourselves,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adam Read<br><b>Sent:</b> 21 January 2011 11:45<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Math Symbols<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'>Any chance of seeing the LATEX code to generate these equations:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_595">http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_595</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'>My LO doesn’t seem to want to do fancy graphic ones (e.g. special chars) – do you need to tell latex to load a set of chars? I can get it to render things like e=mc2 but not much else:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><img border=0 width=456 height=304 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01CBB961.FAF7EF30"><span style='color:#244061'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'>Bl***y maths… <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'>I’ve tried doing <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><tex src="\usepackage{amsmath}”> to no avail.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'>---------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#244061'>Adam Read<br></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#244061'>eLearning Technologist</span><span style='color:#17365D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Tenney<br><b>Sent:</b> 21 January 2011 11:00<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Math Symbols<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Use latex in text fields<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><tex src=”e=mc^2”><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adam Read<br><b>Sent:</b> 21 January 2011 11:00<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list (xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk)<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Math Symbols<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'>Hi all<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'>Is anyone using Math / Scientific symbols in Xerte? I’ve had a request for help from a Maths lecturer who needs to use symbols.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'>I’ve had a go using <sub> and <sup> which works in XOT with “allow subscripts” ticked, and also came across an earlier list post pointing out HTML chars which seem to work, but I also came across some reference to Latex.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'>Does latex work in XOT? Last I read it seemed some service you chaps used had crashed?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'>If there is an easier way than using HTML syntax then let me know. I guess another alternative would be to use some other software and save them as images.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'>Cheers, Adam <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><span style='color:#244061'>---------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:72.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#244061'>Adam Read<br></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#244061'>eLearning Technologist</span><span style='color:#17365D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:72.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><pre style='margin-left:72.0pt'>University College Plymouth St Mark & St John, Derriford Road, Plymouth, PL6 8BH <o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='margin-left:72.0pt'> Phone: 01752 636700 Web: <a href="http://www.ucpmarjon.ac.uk">www.ucpmarjon.ac.uk</a> <o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='margin-left:72.0pt'> Principal: Professor Margaret Noble A Church of England College Founded in 1840<o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='margin-left:72.0pt'>University College Plymouth St Mark & St John is a registered charity the trustee <o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='margin-left:72.0pt'> of which is a company limited by guarantee registered in England No. 986239 <o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt'>This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. 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