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vicmz · Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Posts: 1268

Hi everyone Very Happy

I'm doing an online course from the MIT, some web pages have mathematical notation but instead of equations and the like all I see is [Math solving error]. Seamonkey has a MathML addon but it doesn't work, same for Firefox, can't use Opera or Chrome in Wary 5.3 ... I haven't found any .pets or tutorials, has anyone addressed this topic yet? Is there a pupplet that has support for mathematical notation?

666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 3171 Location: wales

hi vicmz

can you post a couple of links so that i can test

L18L · Last edited by L18L on Tue 02 Oct 2012, 14:43; edited 1 time in total

http://www.w3.org/Math/
No .pet yet Confused

http://www.w3.org/Math/Software/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla_MathML_Project

vicmz · Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Posts: 1268

@666philb

https://www.edx.org/courses/MITx/6.00x/2012_Fall/about

This is the site of the course, but you have to register (the course is free of charge, BTW) and view the welcome secuence, there's a part in that sequence called 'immediate feedback' where you have to test the exercise forms.

666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 3171 Location: wales

is this what you mean ? as all the boxes seem to be working on my firefox 13

vicmz · Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Posts: 1268

vicmz · Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Posts: 1268

OK, according to the links provided by L18L, Firefox 15 and newer and Seamonkey 2.12 and newer have support for webfonts, and the MITx page seems to provide webfont support as well. I'll try this, unless I find a tutorial on installing MathML fonts as OpenType instead of TTF. But I'll test later - there's an electrical storm coming, the power is unstable and etc. (Posted from mobile)

L18L

Hello classmates Laughing

using
firefox 12.0
and
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mathml-fonts/
installed

there is no Math Processing Error Cool

vicmz · Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Posts: 1268

L18L · Posted: Wed 03 Oct 2012, 08:58 Post subject:

Yes, I am in puppy precise 5.3.93
# echo $LANG
de_DE.UTF-8
#

firefox 12.0 (german version downloaded from mozilla some time ago to /mnt/home/opt/)

MathML-fonts 1.1

and now reading the textbook....

vicmz · Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Posts: 1268

L18L · Posted: Wed 03 Oct 2012, 10:45 Post subject: python

It is in every devx

vicmz · Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Posts: 1268

This time I tried right-clicking on the [Math solving error] message, a menu appeared showing that the course website sets HTML/CSS rendering of MathML fonts as default for my browsers -- I changed it to MathML and got a warning message from the site saying my browser doesn't fully support Mathjax, but giving the chance to try anyway. I clicked OK and voilà ! Laughing

This is on SeaMonkey 2.12.1 (another case of "not popular, not powerful") without MathML extension, surely works for Firefox or other browsers, too. But MITx courses support Chrome first and Firefox as second choice, so those who plan to give them a go should bear that in mind.

Thank you everyone for your help! Very Happy