[Xerte] Maths symbols

[E.A. Draffan]

Not free but another alternative for translating into MathML is MathType
http://www.dessci.com/en/reference/webmath/tech/mathml.htm  This can also be
used with speech recognition etc. 

Equations in MS Word 2007
http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/archive/2006/10/04/Equations-in-
Word-2007.aspx 
XHTML and MathML from Office 2007
http://dpcarlisle.blogspot.com/2007/04/xhtml-and-mathml-from-office-20007.ht
ml 

Hope this helps
Best wishes E.A. 

Mrs E.A. Draffan
Learning Societies Lab,
ECS, University of Southampton,
Tel +44 (0)23 8059 7246
http://www.lexdis.ecs.soton.ac.uk
http://www.emptech.info

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 16:26
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Maths symbols

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 use.
 
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 8:03 AM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Maths symboles
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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