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Author interactive math equations and diagrams online using LATEX and PSTricks

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Re: Author interactive math equations and diagrams online using LATEX and PSTricks

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Post by nilaykumar »

aroberge wrote: post #2

For working scientists, engineers and mathematicians, that are already familiar with LaTeX, this seems to be an easy and natural path to achieve (part of) the vision of Bret Victor.

This is a tad off-topic but: I'd argue that a large proportion of scientists and mathematicians don't want to waste time trying to achieve Victor's goals. We have jargon for a reason - it allows experts to communicate effectively and efficiently. Scientists don't want to waste time or space unpacking what should be patently clear to another scientist.

Now science education, that's different.

Re: Author interactive math equations and diagrams online using LATEX and PSTricks

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Post by mcphage »

ivansavz wrote: post #17
chm wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand why he doesn't release the source for his applications.

Source code here: https://github.com/pyramation/LaTeX2HTML5 and here: https://github.com/Mathapedia/LaTeX2HTML5

I think the parent is talking about Bret Victor.

Re: Author interactive math equations and diagrams online using LATEX and PSTricks

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Post by gizmo686 »

nilaykumar wrote: post #21
aroberge wrote: post #2

For working scientists, engineers and mathematicians, that are already familiar with LaTeX, this seems to be an easy and natural path to achieve (part of) the vision of Bret Victor.

This is a tad off-topic but: I'd argue that a large proportion of scientists and mathematicians don't want to waste time trying to achieve Victor's goals. We have jargon for a reason - it allows experts to communicate effectively and efficiently. Scientists don't want to waste time or space unpacking what should be patently clear to another scientist. Now science education, that's different.

I can't speak for all scientist, but most people I know enjoy explaining what they do to other people.

Re: Author interactive math equations and diagrams online using LATEX and PSTricks

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Post by ekurutepe »

chid wrote: post #11

I wonder when this will ever work on e-ink readers.

EPUB format is HTML based. I don't think if would be very hard to get this working on e-readers as long as there is an input method and you don't mind the slow refresh rate of e-ink.

Re: Author interactive math equations and diagrams online using LATEX and PSTricks

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Post by pyramation »

Thanks to whoever posted this. Just to clarify, yes, Bret Victor was an inspiration for this project. He was also quoted many times in my thesis for the first iteration of this project, mathapedia. The main point here was to built a product with an ethnographic approach to design---a product that works without the user having to change their behavior, in this case, an academician who already writes LaTeX can start to use LaTeX2HTML5 without much web dev knowledge. This is mostly a proof of concept for something that I hope to be more isomorphic to everything you can do with LaTeX and PSTricks, as well as utilizing other packages, such as TiKZ/PGF.

Re: Author interactive math equations and diagrams online using LATEX and PSTricks

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Post by pyramation »

alok-g wrote: post #15

With reference to: https://mathapedia.com/books/34/sections/203/526 The code for the second example does not sound impressive to me. I do not want to draw diagrams by specifying coordinates of each and every box and label. How do I tell it to draw a label in the center of an already placed box? Is there a way/tool where diagrams can be drawn at a higher level of abstraction where the user does not have to specify eac…

I agree about drawing diagrams by specifying coordinates (it is tedious). The point here is to make existing LaTeX publishable online. It would be great if there was a web tool to generate the diagram PSTricks code
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