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My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

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Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

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Post by fnordfnordfnord »

huy wrote: post #36
beberlei wrote: post #2

This is very cool! I could have really used this during my time at university. :) How about as a next step adding revisions to formulas and making them commentable, working sort of like gists?

Thank you! Or you could share it with your university juniors ;) Those revisions and comments features are nice suggestions, though I really want to see exactly what features are needed for users to use this _regularly_.

I'm a bit embarrassed to admit it, but one of the first things that came to mind was to wish it would render an image that could be c'd and p'd.

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

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Post by mkl »

huy wrote: post #45
mathteacher1729 wrote: post #43

I will be sharing this with my students. A few comments are below. My motivation behind the comments is based on how students who are new to LaTeX tend to misuse or not fully recognize the full power of LaTeX. I realize that this may not be the target audience of your project and so if any of my comments are not appropriate, please disregard them. * Mention that \( .. \) is the same as $...$ and \[ ... \] is the same…

Thank you for the thoughtful answer. I'm really happy that you find it useful. I have noted your feedback and will work through it. > students who are new to LaTeX tend to misuse or not fully recognize the full power of LaTeX. I realize that this may not be the target audience of your project and so if any of my comments are not appropriate, please disregard them. These are actually the perfect audience for the proje…

The layouts of the page and the maths are doing weird things for me. The page layout problem seems zoom-related.

http://imgur.com/CulHI3N (Chrome 29.0.1547.57 on Ubuntu 12.10, 125% zoom)

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

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Post by huy »

mkl wrote: post #53
huy wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for the thoughtful answer. I'm really happy that you find it useful. I have noted your feedback and will work through it. > students who are new to LaTeX tend to misuse or not fully recognize the full power of LaTeX. I realize that this may not be the target audience of your project and so if any of my comments are not appropriate, please disregard them. These are actually the perfect audience for the proje…

The layouts of the page and the maths are doing weird things for me. The page layout problem seems zoom-related. http://imgur.com/CulHI3N (Chrome 29.0.1547.57 on Ubuntu 12.10, 125% zoom)

Thanks and noted. That's a div float size issue.

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

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Post by singold »

This is really cool, I've learned a lot of latex in ~30 mins thanks to this.

I'm learning latex as part of a Numeric Methods course and will be sharing this with my fellow students

It would be great to have some feedback-app-thing integrated, I'll love to report issues, but I think that if it is in page would be better than going to some mail client or something. Maybe this could help: https://www.uservoice.com/ (I like it)

Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians

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Post by huy »

singold wrote: post #59

This is really cool, I've learned a lot of latex in ~30 mins thanks to this. I'm learning latex as part of a Numeric Methods course and will be sharing this with my fellow students It would be great to have some feedback-app-thing integrated, I'll love to report issues, but I think that if it is in page would be better than going to some mail client or something. Maybe this could help: https://www.uservoice.com/ (I l…

Was thinking about the feedback thing this morning actually - and I think that would be the very first feature to add (after work)
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