/tinymce-asciimath-plugin

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Introduction

A TinyMCE plugin to enter ASCIIMath in the TinyMCE Wysiwyg Editor.

It is based on the TinyMCE plugin written by David Lippman as part of the IMathAS project: http://www.imathas.com/. A demo of the IMathAS version of the plugin is available here: http://www.imathas.com/editordemo/demo.html

This version of the plugin has been modified to always render MathML and not use any fallbacks that generate images server-side. Instead it assumes you are using MathJax for cross-browser rendering of MathML.

Additionally it uses the latest version (ver 2.0) of the ASCIIMATH javascript library by Peter Jipsen available here: http://mathcs.chapman.edu/~jipsen/mathml/asciimath.html

This plugin was developed as part of the FullMarks project funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation, an open educational repository of model questions and answers. See http://www.fullmarks.org.za and http://github.com/fullmarks for more information.

Installation

  1. Clone the repo to a location relative to your project

  2. Install MathJax. See http://www.mathjax.org/docs/1.1/installation.html

  3. Copy the plugin to jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/asciimath directory into your TinyMCE plugins directory.

  4. Add the plugin to your TinyMCE config, eg:

    <script type="text/javascript">
    tinyMCE.init({
            mode: "textareas",
            plugins: "asciimath",
            theme: "advanced",
            theme_advanced_buttons3: "hr,removeformat,visualaid,|,sub,sup,|,charmap,asciimath",
});
</script>