[FM Discuss] equations now work

[Adam Hyde]

Anyone out there want to look at the php to try to improve it?

"Edward Cherlin" <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:28, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 11:16 -0500, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 06:46, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net>
>wrote:
>>> > ok
>>> >
>>> > so...it seems they now work.
>>>
>>> The preview pane does not show anything when creating a formula. The
>>> Show MathML button does nothing when creating a formula. The Cancel
>>> button does nothing.
>>
>> ok i can hack those out
>
>Thanks.
>
>>> Is there a way to reopen a formula to edit it?
>>
>> nope
>
>But as we discuss next, there could be.
>
>>> It appears as an image,
>>> with no apparent way to get at the defining code, although the code
>is
>>> viewable in a rollover and from a menu selection.
>>
>> correct
>>
>>> Oh, here we go.
>>> Clicking a formula and then the math editor icon brings up the
>editor,
>>> but it doesn't do me any good. The source text is still scrunched
>into
>>> one column, and the preview shows code like
>>
>> yeah its not good for editing. i will get rid of all that
>
>All we need is apparently a tweak to the table cell widths.
>
>[code snipped]
>>>
>>> The spacing between elements is wrong.
>
>An appropriate set of spacing rules for most cases is defined in TeX.
>The rest requires that the user of the editor be able to insert
>thinspaces, at least. In TeX, a thinspace is one sixth of an em space.
>Unicode U+2006 SIX-PER-EM SPACE
>
>> if you would like to improve it then the files that need to be worked
>on
>> to gen the images are all located in this tar/zip:
>> http://www.imathas.com/editordemo/tinymcemathgraphplugins0.15.tar.gz
>> http://www.imathas.com/editordemo/tinymcemathgraphplugins0.15.zip
>>
>> it could be improved a lot....and i know you know php... ;)
>
>Nope. I am aware that I sometimes give a meretricious impression of
>knowing everything, but that turns out not to be the case. ^_^
>
>>> The panel of math symbols still shows small cap pi, but now lower
>case
>>> pi correctly appears in the formula.
>>>
>>> I have attached a page of samples of mostly elementary material.
>>>
>>> > i took the image generator and applied it
>>> > to Objavi....
>>> >
>>> >
>http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/layouttester-en-2011.01.11-12.44.49.pdf
>>>
>>> I saw one instance of dy/dx. Were there supposed to be any other
>formulas?
>>
>> nope
>>
>> adam
>>
>>>
>>> > try it :)
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