Comments on: Watexy - Latex robot for Google Wave

By: SynBioWave: Google Wave extension for synthetic biology | Abhishek Tiwari

SynBioWave: Google Wave extension for synthetic biology | Abhishek Tiwari — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:34:52 +0000

[...] Watexy- A Google wave robot for Latex writing (watexy@appspot.com) [...]

By: Mikkel Meyer Andersen

Mikkel Meyer Andersen — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:49:13 +0000

Thanks for the link!

By: Eddy Parkinson

Eddy Parkinson — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 08:49:10 +0000

There is a LaTeX and Google docs - online viewer, pdf compiler, editor

http://docs.latexlab.org

By: Collaborative work with LaTeX « The Lumber Room

Collaborative work with LaTeX « The Lumber Room — Tue, 11 May 2010 13:15:21 +0000

[...] Update [2009-10-03]: Some other things worth a mention: online LaTeX editors like MonkeyTex (but no one really likes editing in anything other than their familiar environment), a page at Wikibooks based on one of the PracTeX articles mentioned above, and, coming Real Soon Now, support for LaTeX in Google Wave.(link.) [...]

By: Konstantin Ardakov

Konstantin Ardakov — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:37:28 +0000

Hi there,

Thanks for writing your Watexy robot - I'm already using it for collaborating with my colleagues.

If I might may a small request/suggestion --- would it be possible to make inline TeX formulas (thus those invoked using ) appear slightly lower in the line? They look a bit out of place at the moment.

Thanks again,

Konstantin

By: Lerngruppe 2.0 » Das Uni Blog

Lerngruppe 2.0 » Das Uni Blog — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:43:40 +0000

[...] Durch Plugins bzw. Extensions lassen sich sogar Mathematische Formeln einfügen und bearbeiten (Watexy). Besonders in der Phase der Prüfungsvorbereitung haben wir gute Erfahrungen damit gemacht. So [...]

By: Jeff Gray

Jeff Gray — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:13:38 +0000

Hi Mikkel,

We are experiencing even more trouble today. Perhaps we just have too much watexy content on one page?

Would you consider examining our page to see how we are using it and see if you can identify why the robot is being crazy?

My wave account is jeffreyjgray@googlewave.com -- or email me at jgray@jhu.edu and I can invite you to the wave with our homework solutions.

I would appreciate any insight you could offer. It's really important for us to have equations in this document and the wave+watexy seemed like a great way to do it, but at this point the problems are making it very difficult for us.

Thank you for considering the help.

Jeff

By: Mikkel Meyer Andersen

Mikkel Meyer Andersen — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:48:01 +0000

Yes, I'll do that. Thanks.

Yes, that is what MathML would mean. You can take a look at e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML . But the downside is that additional fonts is required to be installed for MathML to work.

Regarding c'n'p from Word, I'm not sure. I actually haven't thought about it before you mention it. I'll keep it in my mind, but it's a low priority if it's even possible.

By: Jeff Gray

Jeff Gray — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:06:02 +0000

Thanks for the reply. Let us know if there's any way we can pressure Google to address this.

I like the MathML idea--would this give us real fonts rather than images? That would be much nicer on the eyes.

The LaTeX input form is wonderful and I think the best solution for writing equations.

Would cut-and-paste from the Word equation editor ever be possible? Seems like that could be encoded in MathML. Its LaTeX-like entry and immediate conversion to math fonts is wonderful and might be a goal to strive toward with this package.

Thanks again.

By: Mikkel Meyer Andersen

Mikkel Meyer Andersen — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:30:20 +0000

Thanks. I'm sorry for the trouble. It seems like the server can't always cope with the pressure, although I'm not entirely sure that's the real problem. The reason is that right now Wave doesn't allow robots to attach images inline in waves, hence the wave has to get the image from the server every single time. This is not optimal - not at all - but it's the only solution for now.

Another solution is to use MathML, and I'm also working on that. But for know it's really not that supported, so I'm not planning on releasing anything shortly.

The problem with you having to click the image can be caused by two things: either it's simply not generated (which I don't think is the case, because then you probably wouldn't be able to see it when editing), or wave's auto-height adjusting is terrible (sorry, Google). As far as I have experience, it's only an issue with block math, so maybe try with inlining equations (although it doesn't give you the possibility to edit, again because Waves doesn't support inline Gadgets).

So there's still som bugs, but as you can read, I believe that the most is caused by Google .

Please keep commenting and posting experiences!