Currently I use MathOverflow's `ask question` feature. This is a great 1st rails project. Also there should be mathematician's Twitter.
Love the idea of Twitter for Mathematicians.
My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians
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Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians
#62Do you plan to open source the source code? I'd like to contribute with with the front end. It works very nicely, but looks too generic. (:
Haven't really thought about it, but yeah why not! I'd love some help, especially with the front end. Edit: Sorry I close it down. Realized that there's some bit of JS code that's contributed by a friend, so I need to check and ask for his permission first. I'll contact you personally to seek for your help :) Thank you again!
Its all right. If you do get the green light, email me. I'm looking for open source projects to contribute.
Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians
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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.
I thought that too, it would be very convenient. On the other hand don't drop the MathJax support because the rendering is really slick. Sometimes rendered images feel weird.
Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians
#64An older alternative that does not rely on MathJax (produces png images) is QuickLatex:
It even supports latex packages (e.g. tikz).
Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I thought that too, it would be very convenient. On the other hand don't drop the MathJax support because the rendering is really slick. Sometimes rendered images feel weird.
Do you mean exporting the entire text to image or just the equation parts?
Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought that too, it would be very convenient. On the other hand don't drop the MathJax support because the rendering is really slick. Sometimes rendered images feel weird.
Do you mean exporting the entire text to image or just the equation parts?
Just the equation parts, to be used in creating worksheets and quizzes.
Re: My first project in Rails – Pastebin for Mathematicians
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I prefer the usability of the OPs much better. The use of dollar signs might be a little clunkier than the begin/end tags when you want to use a dollar sign. But all in all I think the presentation is better and a bit more welcoming.
Yes it is, and I hope he can contribute to mathbin as it is more widely used - at least it's official pastebin in ##math channel on freenode. I don't know if the author of mathbin is still working on it (the message on main page is old), but I think it's worth a shot ;)
I showed this to ##math and the ops decided to make TexPaste the official pastebin instead of Mathbin: http://i.imgur.com/hk9fPZV.png
