You Asked, We Listened: Mathematical Symbols Now Available

6 Feb 2013

We've seen a lot of element14 Community members ask for an easy way to add mathematical symbols to their posts and documents. Last night we released an update to the website that adds a new icon to the editor; simply click the icon and choose from a multitude of symbols. When you click one, it'll be added to your document.

Let us know what you think about this new feature - hate it? love it? Let us know by leaving a comment on this blog post.

Thanks!

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vsluiter over 12 years ago
Hello Matt,
Here's some feedback, I also tried to address this somewhwere else:
- Please add the mathematical symbols also in the comments
- The symbol on the button is a capital Omega, which is missing from the symbols. I'd very much like the Greek capitals aswell.
- If possible, a simple math / expression editor would be nice, especially for divisions, square roots, integrals etcetera.
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Matt over 12 years ago in reply to vsluiter

Thanks for your feedback. There was a discussion over here about it; http://www.element14.com/community/thread/22573?tstart=0

The editor we use on the site is TinyMCE; we can do some customisations to it, or use plugins from elsewhere. Doing a quick web search for an off-the-shelf expression editor for TinyMCE didn't give me anything useful. If you spot one, give me a shout & I'll take a look. I guess even if it's not for TinyMCE, as long as it is generally build in JavaScript, we could possibly adapt it to work here.

Matt.
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vsluiter over 12 years ago in reply to Matt

Hello Matt,
This is JavaScript, easy to use and unfortunately non-free: http://sharemath.com/AlfredEq-README.html

Edit: Oops, it's flash. Sorry. Still would be nice
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Matt over 12 years ago in reply to vsluiter

Yeah, I just saw that it needs Flash too.. and no word on pricing. If you spot any others, add them to this thread & we'll make a note to take a look after the upgrade is complete.

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Matt over 12 years ago in reply to vsluiter

Yeah, I just saw that it needs Flash too.. and no word on pricing. If you spot any others, add them to this thread & we'll make a note to take a look after the upgrade is complete.

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