[Xerte] Maths symboles

[Tenney Julian]

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? 
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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Swanson
Sent: 06 May 2008 15:41
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Maths symboles


You can display a pretty fair number of math symbols using HTML. I just
tested displaying the Sum (sigma) symbol, and infinity using ∞ and
Σ, 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.
 
More HTML Math Entity symbols at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html#h-24.3.1
 
Paul


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	From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tenney Julian
	Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:44 AM
	To: Xerte discussion list
	Subject: RE: [Xerte] Maths symboles
	
	
	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. 
	 
	J

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	From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Omar Hamed
	Sent: 06 May 2008 06:07
	To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
	Subject: [Xerte] Maths symboles
	
	
	How one can write mathematical expressions in a content of a LO?
	
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