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  • From: Jon Phillips <jon AT fabricatorz.com>
  • To: jschneider AT pobox.com
  • Cc: dchandler AT gmail.com, acawiki-general AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [acawiki-general] acawiki-general Digest, Vol 9, Issue 15
  • Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 11:51:05 +0800

Great suggestion on features. I think we have to weight the potential
impact for features being added. Please move it back I think August is
too hard right now to get that feature out. Can we entice you Jim and
others to help dev. on this?

Jon

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Jodi Schneider <jschneider AT pobox.com> wrote:
> Thanks again for the suggestion, Jim. I just added this to the roadmap for
> August:
> * Improve LaTeX support, needed for any serious effort in mathematics and
> related fields. Contact for advice, Michael Kohlhase at Bremen
> His [http://kwarc.info/ group] has state-of-the-art tools for LaTeX to
> XML/HTML support and are the current maintainers/developers of Bruce
> Miller's [http://trac.mathweb.org/LaTeXML/ LaTeXML]
> As far as I can tell, the roadmap is a plan/wishlist for the work
> Fabricatorz is doing, in collaboration with the community.
> -Jodi
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 4:43 AM, Jon Phillips <jon AT fabricatorz.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Jodi Schneider <jschneider AT pobox.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Jim Pitman <pitman AT stat.berkeley.edu>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Dana Chandler <dchandler AT gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > I was just curious, what is the current state of LaTeX support in
>> >> > acawiki?
>> >
>> > Currently we're using a MediaWiki plugin that supports LaTeX [1].
>> > Enclose
>> > LaTeX in <math>...</math> tags.
>> > [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Formula
>> >
>> >>
>> >> > Is there a TexVC implementation?
>> >> > More broadly, what are people's thoughts on whether there should be
>> >> > equations, diagrams, and graphs in the academic summaries?
>> >
>> > Absolutely, we need them!
>> >
>> >>
>> >> I imagine that
>> >> > many of these would be confusing or not useful for a general
>> >> > audience,
>> >> > but
>> >> > would be necessary for it to be of any value to an academic audience.
>> >> > Any thoughts?
>> >>
>> >> Essential to provide LaTeX support for any serious effort in
>> >> mathematics
>> >> and related fields.
>> >> Michael Kohlhase's group at Bremen  http://kwarc.info/ has
>> >> state-of-the-art tools
>> >> for LaTeX to XML/HTML support. They are the current
>> >> maintainers/developers
>> >> of Bruce Miller's
>> >> LaTeXML http://trac.mathweb.org/LaTeXML/
>> >> If acawiki dev has any cycles for LaTeX support I suggest contacting
>> >> Michael for advice.
>> >
>> > Good idea! That belongs on the roadmap.
>>
>> Totally: http://acawiki.org/Acawiki:Roadmap
>>
>> --
>> Jon Phillips
>> http://fabricatorz.com/
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>
>



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