[Xerte] Re: Math Symbols

Fri Jan 21 13:07:14 GMT 2011

Cheers Julian

A.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 21 January 2011 13:03
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Math Symbols

It's not my project. I did look at the raw xml, but it has a load of escaped characters in there which make it more difficult to copy / paste into a mail.  I have sent your message to the owner of the project.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
Sent: 21 January 2011 12:16
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Math Symbols

No chance of seeing the text as it appears in that Xerte LO?!

That document doesn't really help at the moment as I can't replicate the examples in Xerte until im sure what to include and what not to!

For example, the document tells you to write:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
The square root of two: $\sqrt{2}$. I can type math!
\end{document}

To output:

[cid:image001.png at 01CBB96C.1F238860]

But in Xerte

Renders:

[cid:image002.png at 01CBB96C.1F238860]

And

<tex src="The square root of two: $\sqrt{2}$. I can type math!"> renders:

[cid:image003.png at 01CBB96C.1F238860]

<tex src="$\sqrt{2}$"> just renders:

[cid:image004.png at 01CBB96C.1F238860]

Any ideas? I could probably work out what I'm missing from that example Nottingham LATEX LO!

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 21 January 2011 11:55
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Math Symbols

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/

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,

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
Sent: 21 January 2011 11:45
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Math Symbols

Any chance of seeing the LATEX code to generate these equations:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_595

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:

[cid:image005.png at 01CBB96C.1F238860]

Bl***y maths...

I've tried doing

<tex src="\usepackage{amsmath}"> to no avail.

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Adam Read
eLearning Technologist

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 21 January 2011 11:00
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Math Symbols

Use latex in text fields

<tex src="e=mc^2">

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Adam Read
Sent: 21 January 2011 11:00
To: Xerte discussion list (xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk)
Subject: [Xerte] Math Symbols

Hi all

Is anyone using Math / Scientific symbols in Xerte? I've had a request for help from a Maths lecturer who needs to use symbols.

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.

Does latex work in XOT? Last I read it seemed some service you chaps used had crashed?

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.

Cheers, Adam

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