[Xerte] Re: Formulae and Latex - idiot's guide?

[Julian Tenney]

It's export.php

The svn logs are helpful here:
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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 20 January 2012 11:52
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Formulae and Latex - idiot's guide?

Ok in my case the latex not working offline was the old Flash Player security issue - it seems my previous global security settings had been lost - probably with a flash player update :-(

So the latex does work offline from an allowed folder.

Just need to make sure the languages folder gets exported now but can't upgrade the whole install so need to know what pages/code is required for that...

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 20 January 2012 11:27
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Formulae and Latex - idiot's guide?

A few points of clarification....

1. It's Tom Reijnders who's now hosting the latex code

2. When updating XOT installations it may not be just the xmlengine.swf that needs updating and not just in one place either...

I have some answers and some questions:

XMLEngine.swf and MainPreloader.swf need to go in the root and modules/xerte/scorm/
the languages folder needs to be in the root along with it's contents (this is not for latex but to avoid having undefined showing in the interface menus)

However having put all this in place on the itq install that Alistair is using:

The languages folder isn't being exported and so the LO doesn't finish loading (adding the languages folder to the exported folder fixes that)
The latex isn't displaying in the exported lo

Does there need to be a second languages folder somewhere or updated export code?
Likewise other files to enable latex to work offline?

Cheers
Ron


From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 20 January 2012 11:05
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Formulae and Latex - idiot's guide?

Hi Alistair.

The issue is that the original host for the latex functionality has ceased to exist.
Ron is now hosting that function.

The pointer to the original site was hardcoded in the engine, XMLEngine.swf.
That is what need to be updated with a version that points to the correct source.

Check to see if all the XMLEngine.swf files on your local machine match the latest one (the one on the server it looks like).

Cheers,
Dave



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From: Alistair.McNaught at HEAcademy.ac.uk<mailto:Alistair.McNaught at HEAcademy.ac.uk>
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:54:41 +0000
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Formulae and Latex - idiot's guide?
Hi Ron
Many thanks for speedy response.

1) Now it works fine on the server BUT
2) Local version after download doesn't work - doesn't render any latex but leaves blank spaces.

Is that the export function that needs tweaking or something different?

A



From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 20 January 2012 10:47
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Formulae and Latex - idiot's guide?

Alistair
I was updating the itq installation as your message came in - try again I think you'll find it works now?

However could you try exporting that and viewing locally and answer the following:

1. Does it still display the latex when viewed locally?
2. If it displays is it ok or is it jumbled in any way e.g. spacing between lines not quite right?

Cheers
Ron

BTW sandpit not yet updated - need to contact David about something.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Alistair McNaught
Sent: 20 January 2012 10:33
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Subject: [Xerte] Formulae and Latex - idiot's guide?

Hi all
I previously creates a learning object at http://itq.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_59 to show teaching staff how to create formulae using simple Latex expressions.

I know there have been issues with the site that was used to host the Latex rendering script and we now have a new solution but I'm not sure how to implement the new solution so that my old learning object (above) will correctly display the formulae now.

I've probably missed some important comment in a thread I skimmed too quickly but any pointers as to how to 'redeem' old formulae rich learning objects will be very welcome.

Thanks
A




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