Re: MathML

[Gerardo Capiel]

Jordan (opening up to public Google Group for Go Read developers),

Congrats on finishing up the year and thanks for checking in!  A couple of thoughts on where we could use your help and next steps on the math project:

1) We have a GoogeServe event on Thursday where a number of volunteers are going to be contributing to Go Read and other Benetech projects. I'd like to get Go Read compiling with Android Studio in addition to Eclipse.  Do you think you would have time to see if you can get the current working master of Go Read on GitHub to build and run from Android Studio?  Can you document the steps necessary?  This will help make Thursday more productive for the contributors and future volunteers.

2) After that, we could try out an alternate strategy for MathML support on Go Read is to have it use MathML Cloud to convert MathML into speakable text and visual images.  Here's some background on the MathML Cloud project:

http://www.slideshare.net/gcapiel/math-ml-cloud-prez-edupub-2

We have a rough prototype of MathML Cloud running on a server (sometimes server is down).  Here's an example:

http://23.251.135.48:16000/?format=json&type=mml&q=<math+xmlns%3D"http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F1998%2FMath%2FMathML"+display%3D"block"+id%3D"mathform">%0D%0A++++<mrow>%0D%0A++++++<mi>y<%2Fmi>%0D%0A++++++<mo>%26%23x2212%3B<%21--+%26%238722%3B+--><%2Fmo>%0D%0A++++++<msub>%0D%0A++++++++<mi>y<%2Fmi>%0D%0A++++++++<mn>1<%2Fmn>%0D%0A++++++<%2Fmsub>%0D%0A++++<%2Fmrow>%0D%0A<%2Fmath>

That API request returns a JSON response with the altText that you can speak.  I'm pretty sure that Go Read doesn't render SVG, so we are adding to an enhanced API endpoint support for PNG and also getting a link back that you can use to open up the MathML and other information in a browser.  I'll send you that endpoint once it's up.

Here's are the relevant repos for MathML Cloud:

https://github.com/benetech/mediawiki-services-mathoid

https://github.com/benetech/mmlc-experiments (this will be the endpoint that support PNG and permanent links to source MathML, it currently relies on Mathoid for running MathJax and ChromeVox on server/PhantomJS, but the plan is to remove that dependency once MathJax and ChromeVox are modified to not require a DOM)

Thanks,

Gerardo

Gerardo Capiel

VP of Engineering

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On May 21, 2014, at 8:26 AM, Jordan Gould <jorda...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Gerardo 

Since I have finished up all my school things for the year I now have more time to dedicate to other projects

I know you said you were moving on from benetech in June and also mentioned a different approach to take when we last spoke on skype 

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Jordan