(I had a few students who initially wanted to learn latex, but they all gave up because it was so difficult to type the formulas in blind and then correct the latex syntax in the in the forum before the post editing deadline ran out.) This was just a quick hack of the oumaths plugin that I hope is good enough for my own needs I do not propose it as a solution to the general maths editor discussion that is going on here. Yes, I realize this is only usable for people who know or want to learn LaTeX, and of course I fully agree that something graphical is needed for most people. So the main problem is not how to create plugins or how to render LaTeX but how to create such tools that output and accept only certain type of code and how to show the maths in editor content area so that users don't need to see the syntax at all if they don't want to. Or if the user tried more complex examples like

Now the same code added to this mathJax plugin gives another result: For example if a teacher has used tex filter in the past he/she might have visited sometimes and found from that site examples about using colors: If people have no knowledge of LaTeX or TeX and if they copy and paste any code from any site without any knowledge about the renderers or available (possible) syntax (MathJax, Mimetex/Tex filter, TexLive or what ever) the result is simply frustrating. They may be ok for University students and teachers but show also in a minute why plain textarea plugins can't be used by lower and secondary school students - and teachers. Have you seen this behaviour in your setup? What might be the bug?Īm I allowed to use and distribute the modified tinymce plugin freely, or, which restrictions apply?Īnd finally, a general moodle thing: If I install the plugin in moodle, how can I later remove it completely? Is deleting the moodle/lib/editor/tinymce/plugins/oumaths folder enough? Moodle says nothing about removing the plugin when I delete the folder from the server. When the window is finally closed, the formula gets placed at the wrong place, namely at the beginning of the line, pushing the text part (which used to be to the left of the formula) down one line.

But then if I edit the formula at the end of the line using the plugin, changing it from inline to displayed or vice versa, I have to click the insert button twice for the formula editor window to close.

I noticed one bug, in my version of the plugin: Sometimes when I type text and then put a formula at the end of the line, using the plugin, initially all seems fine. (Most of the time went into figuring out how it all works.) The code still contains a lot of irrelevant parts, so I'll clean it up later. I now did some trivial modifications to the plugin, so that it uses MathJax rather than the OU equation rendering system.

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