[jQuery] ANN: MathTran JavaScript - Google SOC and jQuery
Hello
You may know already that Google pays students to write open-source
software, as part of the Google Summer of Code (GSOC).
You may not know that this this year there is, sort of, a jQuery GSOC
project! And it involves the (La)TeX typesetting system for
mathematics. (Even if you don't care about math, perhaps read on.
The project is also about a JavaScript library for using a web
service, and the editing of structured content.)
Here's some background. I'm a TeX expert, and have developed
http://www.mathtran.org, which makes TeX typesetting available as a
web service. This year the TeX Users Group (http://www.tug.org) is a
GSOC mentoring organisation, and I suggested a project to write
JavaScript to use MathTran on web pages.
Christoph Hafemeister applied, and the project was accepted.
Christoph and I then decided to use jQuery as the starting point for
our work. You can read more about it at http://mathtran.wordpress.com,
and you can try out an autocomplete demo at
http://www.mathtran.org/toys/chafemeister/autocomplete.html.
We're making use not only of jQuery but also some plugins and other
code:
fieldSelection: http://plugins.jquery.com/node/1202
markitup editor: http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/examples/html/
What we're doing with autocomplete is a little special, and so we are
not incorporating existing autocomplete code (but we are learning from
it's ideas).
If there's time we'd like to look at a MathTran plugin for an HTML
editor. The WYM editor is a prime candidate, in part because it is
based on jQuery.
http://www.wymeditor.org/
If you're interested, or want to help out, please do contact me.
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Jonathan
http://mathtran.wordpress.com