cannot connect to "latex2edx" server

[Debashish Ghosh]

Hi,

We run openedx Eucalyptus and have been using Latex for math compliations for the last couple of years. Suddenly the latex compiler has stopped working. We are getting "cannot connect to latex2edx server" whenever we are adding a new Problem and hitting "Save and Compile to edx XML" inside the Latex compiler. Anybody facing this issue? I have enabled the "Enable Latex Compiler" to True before creating the new Problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Debashish

[Debashish Ghosh]

Sorry to repost on this question. Is anybody in this group using Latex? We are still having issues with connecting to the latex2edx server. Should we contact the developers directly. I can still include Latex using Advance settings so I am thinking edx still supports Latex? If not should we use any other Maths compiler to display the symbols correctly.

Thanks

Debashish

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[Peter Pinch]

As it says in the docs, this is a prototype feature and not supported by edX. In particular, it relies on a web services run by a faculty-member at MIT. The service was down, but should be up again now. If isn’t working for you please let us know if a) you can reach https://studio-input-filter.mitx.mit.edu/latex2edx?raw=1 and b) what errors you are getting from the server. 

The server code is open source and is available from https://github.com/mitodl/latex2edx_xserver . If you rely on the server being available, you may want to try running it yourself. 

If you’re working with small snippets of Latex, you might find it easier to work with MathJax, which is supported by edX. See https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/edx-partner-course-staff/en/latest/exercises_tools/mathjax.html for details. 

Some course teams at MIT like to maintain their entire course (or chapters of it) in Latex. Most of them use the code at https://github.com/mitocw/latex2edx which lets you compile Latex into OLX offline for importing into edX. 

Sorry I can’t be of more help, 

Peter Pinch

MIT Open Learning

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[Debashish Ghosh]

Hi Peter,

This is of great help. I think you have given me enough pointers to take this forward. Appreciate your help

Thanks

Debashish

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