From vandam at cs.ucsb.edu  Sat Sep  2 19:17:06 2006
From: vandam at cs.ucsb.edu (Wim van Dam)
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 16:17:06 -0700
Subject: [Instiki] problem with jsmath on $2^4=4^2$.
Message-ID: <44FA10F2.5060206@cs.ucsb.edu>

Hi,

I'm having troubles writing exponents using instiki and jsmath. Even a 
simple equation like $2^4=4^2$ produces something wrong where the '4=4' 
part gets raised and the second '2' is lowered. The HTML that is 
produced does indeed say: <p>$2<sup>4=4</sup>2$</p>.
All other more complicated LaTeX instruction work fine, so it seems 
something specific to the $x^y$ code and how it apparently gets confused 
for the ^superscript^ command in plain text.

Any pointers how I can avoid this problem?
Thanks,

Wim

From mark.james.lists at gmail.com  Sat Sep  9 05:16:28 2006
From: mark.james.lists at gmail.com (mark larios)
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 18:16:28 +0900
Subject: [Instiki] problem with jsmath on $2^4=4^2$.
In-Reply-To: <44FA10F2.5060206@cs.ucsb.edu>
References: <44FA10F2.5060206@cs.ucsb.edu>
Message-ID: <f066723b0609090216k33e45042mf47f0e21be187da4@mail.gmail.com>

Wim,

What's happening is that Textile (or rather, RedCloth) is parsing the
math before jsmath gets a chance to do it's thing. I use Markdown,
which has backslash escapes. So, for example, if I want:

$rb_k + b_e > c$

I need

$rb\_k + b\_e > c$

instead. Markdown will take out the backslashes, leaving the original
equation for jsmath to parse. I'm not sure how to escape properly in
Textile. While there's a <notextile> tag, it converts things like
carats and equal signs into HTML entities, so it's no-go for jsmath.

On 9/3/06, Wim van Dam <vandam at cs.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having troubles writing exponents using instiki and jsmath. Even a
> simple equation like $2^4=4^2$ produces something wrong where the '4=4'
> part gets raised and the second '2' is lowered. The HTML that is
> produced does indeed say: <p>$2<sup>4=4</sup>2$</p>.
> All other more complicated LaTeX instruction work fine, so it seems
> something specific to the $x^y$ code and how it apparently gets confused
> for the ^superscript^ command in plain text.
>
> Any pointers how I can avoid this problem?

-- 
mark larios
<http://raysend.com/mark/>

From simon at noatv.com  Mon Sep 18 16:39:46 2006
From: simon at noatv.com (Simon Dorfman)
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:39:46 -0500
Subject: [Instiki] documentation improvements
Message-ID: <6a4eafbb0609181339u24e9f31g57e175f29014563d@mail.gmail.com>

In trying to make instiki easier to use for my non-technical
colleagues, I made some changes to one file.  I'm not sure how to
contribute my changes back to the project (and instiki.org is down at
the moment) so I thought I'd just email my changes to this list with
the hopes that someone more knowledgeable can incorporate them
correctly into the project.

Note: In my Edit Web settings, I have the following 3 noteworthy settings:
1. Markdown selected for my Markup
2. Red selected for my color
3. "Brackets only" is checkmarked

Because I have Brackets only checked. I wanted to replace the
CamelCase WikiWord documentation from the side of each edit page with
double bracket new page creation documentation.  I also wanted to add
documentation for how to upload images and files.  I accomplished this
by replacing the contents of this file:
instiki/app/views/wiki_words_help.rhtml
...with this text:
<h3>How To Create New Pages</h3>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr><td>[[new page name]] </td><td
class="arrow">&rarr;</td><td><span class="newWikiWord">new page
name</span><span style="text-decoration: underline; color:
red;">?</span></td></tr>
  <tr><td colspan="3"><em><p>Click red question mark link to start
editing that new page.</p></em></td></tr>
</table>
<p> </p><!-- spacer hack, this should be made pretty with CSS, but
adding this paragraph is a quick fix -->
<h3>How To Upload Files and Images</h3>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr><td>[[file name.jpg:pic]]</td><td
class="arrow">&rarr;</td><td><span class="newWikiWord">file
name.jpg</span><span style="text-decoration: underline; color:
red;">?</span></td></tr>
  <tr><td>[[file name.pdf:file]]</td><td
class="arrow">&rarr;</td><td><span class="newWikiWord">file
name.pdf</span><span style="text-decoration: underline; color:
red;">?</span></td></tr>
  <tr><td colspan="3"><em><p>Click red question mark link to upload
your image or file.</p></em></td></tr>
</table>

In case that code gets a bunch of line breaks added thru email, I've
attached the file to this email as well.

Thanks,
Simon

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