[FM Discuss] equations equuations

[adam]

and more...

I have found this however:
http://www.imathas.com/editordemo/demo.html

which works in webkit browsers using php to generate images from the
mark up i think.

anyone want to look more into this and see if we can somehow adapt this
for xinha?

adam


On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 11:34 +0100, adam hyde wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i looked into the equation issue. its kinda interesting and kinda
> confusing. i would love it if someone could help work out whats going
> on.
> 
> I made this book here for testing this kind of thing:
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/layouttester/edit/
> 
> Firstly...we are using the Xinha editor and the Equation plugin.
> 
> When I add an equation I get a span like this:
> <span class="AM">`dy/dx`</span>
> 
> AM I guess is short for AsciiMathML which is the javascript that manages
> all this:
> http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/mathml/asciimath.html
> 
> When the equation is placed it looks fine. When I save the page and open
> it, it displays incorrectly - it shows the ascii not the mathml. ie i
> 'see' this:
> dy/dx
> 
> and not the nice equation.
> 
> If I click on the source button for the editor and see the source view
> and then click it again to see the wysiwyg view i see the equation
> again. ugh
> 
> when i then save it and look at the html it generates it displays
> incorrectly here:
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/layouttester/_v/1.0/equations/
> 
> I see the ascii.
> 
> However...When I look at another page where I have also included the
> AsciiMathML javascipt in a script link (<script type="text/javascript"
> src="http://booki.flossmanuals.net/site_media/xinha/plugins/Equation/ASCIIMathML.js"></script>) I see the equation displayed correctly:
> http://booki.flossmanuals.net/layouttester/_full/
> 
> 
> However....all this works with Firefox not in a webkit browser (unless
> someone wants to prove me wrong - please feel free to test)...
> 
> 
> when i publish the pdf I get ascii again:
> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/layouttester-en-2011.01.11-11.26.44.pdf
> 
> this is because our pdf is generated by the webkit layout engine.
> 
> so...apart from the strange issue with the editor not displaying the
> content correctly I think the issue cannot be resolved since it only
> works with firefox as far as i can tell...and we use webkit to gen the
> pdf...so unless anyone can work out how to get webkit to gen the mathml
> properly then we have to disable the plugin...anyone want to try?
> 
> 
> adam
> 
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