online document editors supporting MathJax

[Tom Hodder]

Hi all,

It seems quite convenient to use google docs for writing study assignments, but the google docs equation editor is pretty limited.

Are there any tools to get MathJax support in google docs? or alternatively some other online Document editor with support for MathJax?

Thanks
Tom

[Peter Krautzberger]

Hi Tom,

As far as we know, there's no way to get MathJax (or anything else) to work with google docs.

Two projects that are somewhat in the direction you're interested in are

* JaxEdit http://code.google.com/p/jaxedit/ an online LaTeX editor with live-preview

* http://notepag.es, a markdown+ MathJax editor with live preview.

Peter.

[Tom Hodder]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Peter Krautzberger <p.kraut...@gmail.com> wrote:

As far as we know, there's no way to get MathJax (or anything else) to work with google docs.

 

Two projects that are somewhat in the direction you're interested in are

* JaxEdit http://code.google.com/p/jaxedit/ an online LaTeX editor with live-preview

* http://notepag.es, a markdown+ MathJax editor with live preview.

Slowly, Oh so slowly, google are releasing features for the docs online editors suite that might be leveraged to allow some interesting integrations, and 2 of interest are google web clipboard but more usefully the google apps-scripts.

So I am thinking of some tool that would hook into google docs Document editor as a chrome browser plugin, or firefox UI extension (because there are no UI hooks for the documents editor as yet) which would allow inserting "widget" into a doc, and have it managed by a 3rd party app.

I did a simple proof of concept with some chemical structural diagrams, so I have a menu in the extension icons next to the URL bar, and clicking on the button causes a background request to make a call to the apps-script Document API and inserts a png InlineImage at the caret location, and then google docs pushes the change (with the inserted diagram) out to the browser opened Document.

So I am thinking that there is some work-around here to get MathJax into the Doc, but obviously docs caja is going to break any attempts of MathJax to control the div and elements itself, hence I think I would render the MathJax to a png file and insert that, and have MathJax in the background.

So I am interested to see how those 2 projects are suitable for leveraging for the MathJax->png dialog part... Will take a look thanks!

Cheers,

Tom

[Tom Hodder]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Peter Krautzberger <p.kraut...@gmail.com> wrote:

* JaxEdit http://code.google.com/p/jaxedit/ an online LaTeX editor with live-preview

I see that jaxedit has been migrated to github, and the user account is named "zohooo";

https://github.com/zohooo/jaxedit

is there any significance to the name "zohooo"? given that zoho writer is the only other online main stream document editor (that I am aware of) that has standard equation editor built in...

Cheers,

Tom

[Larry Phillips]

latexlab.org is a project aimed at combining Latex and google docs. It looks promising.