Hi Milind,
Had a very short look at the mathquill project/API. It states, that
the project is "alpha" which indicates, that there could be
significant changes. On the other hand it is an opportunity to
influence it in a TW way :)

The problem I see, isn't converting the stuff into a plugin and call
it with TW. The problem is, to save the formular back into the context
of a tiddler text, after editing it.

a) mathquill uses the following html syntax for rendering a formular:
<code class="mathquill ....">formular</code>

It would be possible to create a TW formatter that can handle this.
eg:
Some text prior to the x^2 <code class="mathquill-editable ...."> x^2
</code> some text afterwards

which could produce an editor. After editing it may be:

Some text prior to the x^2 <code class="mathquill-editable ...."> y^3
</code> some text afterwards
==========
Handling this possibility a) would be a lot of work and editing the
"text prior x^2" and the formular would be 2 edit steps. I personally
don't like this possibility ....
I'd only use this without "editable" to display/handle existing html
code blocks.
====

Writing the above I had an idea:

b)
Some text <<mathquill "formular::fx1" editable:true>> some more text

where tiddler "formular" contains
fx1: x^2
fx2: x^3
fx3: f(x)=sin(x)
fx4: ....

Tiddler formular could contain several slices. Using some existing
code to modify tiddler slices it should be quite handy. The formular
tiddler would be an overview about used formulars. These formulars are
only referenced by the mathquill macro. It would be possible to edit
this tiddler also by hand. All referenced formulars would be
automatically updated. The format to store the formulars would be
Latex, since the API seems to handle this.

I am not sure, if this workflow, would fit to an editors needs, but
handling it TW side would be possible.

-m

On Aug 15, 9:01 am, Milind <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>      Is it possible to make a plugin out of MathQuill (http://
> mathquill.github.com/) onto tiddlywiki? It allows WYSIWYG interface
> for writing equations and would be really helpful. Don't know how that
> can be done if its possible. Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks,
> Milind

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