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The problem, Colin, is that a good deal of this material is inaccurate and I don;t want to start a documentation war - lol- as you know that I agree that documentation is inadequate. [[User:Marc Grober|Marc Grober]] 21:13, 16 July 2010 (UTC) | The problem, Colin, is that a good deal of this material is inaccurate and I don;t want to start a documentation war - lol- as you know that I agree that documentation is inadequate. WHile I owuld also agree with some of your "editorializing": | ||
The various brands of TeX and other math markup languages have become | |||
something of a nightmare to try and find any reasonable consistency. | |||
Most use sub-sets and variations of TeX rules and fonts and symbols | |||
that seem to be developed on the whim of the developer rather than | |||
any consistent mathematical strategy. Also the lack of user friendly | |||
documentation has worked against the easy spread of knowledge here, | |||
but what is worse, and this is the problem for the Moodle Community, | |||
the lack of directly related documentation in using TeX Notation in | |||
Moodle has not been helpful. (Having said these things, I am sure that | |||
many people will disagree - but I accept there is a large difference | |||
between what the developers of the various TeX "standards" consider | |||
"consistent" and reality..:) ) Please help by adding your own examples | |||
and rules to these pages. If you notice an error, please change it, if | |||
you see something missing, please add it. | |||
I don't know that it belongs in the doc itself... [[User:Marc Grober|Marc Grober]] 21:13, 16 July 2010 (UTC) |
Revision as of 21:28, 16 July 2010
At this point it would not be appropriate to promote another TeX package so please be careful. it might be better to add a link to another page that could describe how to change to a full TeX package.--Colin Fraser 15:06, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Bit inaccurate
The problem, Colin, is that a good deal of this material is inaccurate and I don;t want to start a documentation war - lol- as you know that I agree that documentation is inadequate. WHile I owuld also agree with some of your "editorializing":
The various brands of TeX and other math markup languages have become something of a nightmare to try and find any reasonable consistency. Most use sub-sets and variations of TeX rules and fonts and symbols that seem to be developed on the whim of the developer rather than any consistent mathematical strategy. Also the lack of user friendly documentation has worked against the easy spread of knowledge here, but what is worse, and this is the problem for the Moodle Community, the lack of directly related documentation in using TeX Notation in Moodle has not been helpful. (Having said these things, I am sure that many people will disagree - but I accept there is a large difference between what the developers of the various TeX "standards" consider "consistent" and reality..:) ) Please help by adding your own examples and rules to these pages. If you notice an error, please change it, if you see something missing, please add it.
I don't know that it belongs in the doc itself... Marc Grober 21:13, 16 July 2010 (UTC)