When we use the print friendly pages and the PDF generation tools the Mathjax code isn’t processed by the client and the results are anywhere there would normally have been an equation is just a mess of Latex. We need students to be able to print the pages with the mathjax code. One option is to use another Latex editor that processes the code server side but this is very limiting as it just converts the code to images on the server side and links them. Because they just process the images the code is never saved so any time we want to make a change we have to completely rewrite that segment of code. Also because they are stored as images they are clumsy to work with compared to mathjax. We need a Latex editor that will allow for client side processing of the Latex code and a PDF converter that will interpret that code when generating the PDF’s.
Considering how many departments at Berkeley will require this I would hope that it isn’t terribly difficult to implement. Right now it seems like there’s only one viable option I’m going to be testing out but if you have any ideas I’m all ears. I know many wiki’s have the ability to both edit the math notation and offer a printer friendly page that also processes the math notation. It doesn’t make sense for us to transition to Drupal unless it supported the same functionality. Don -- Donald Orlando University of California 282E LeConte Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-7300 Voice: 510-642-5328 Fax: 510-643-8497 Web: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~phylabs/
