MultiMarkdown Syntax

[ralfe]

Hi guys,

I am having a bit of a problem at the moment. I am busy creating a course on mathematics for computer science, and I discovered that I have a lot of symbols and formulas which I cannot simply type in, but will have to create as images, and then upload to a webserver and insert into the course content as images. This feels a bit tedious.

Then, today I came across this extension to Markdown called MultiMarkdown which supports mathematics symbols: https://rawgithub.com/fletcher/human-markdown-reference/master/index.html

@dirk, what do you think about making use of something like this, which would also enable course designers to include tables, footnotes, cross references, citations, and more?

Regards,
Ralfe

[dirk]

I’ll need to look into MultiMarkdown, but markdown on it’s own does have limits. What does the maths stack exchange site use?

What I would like more is to give course creators more freedom to use HTML and JS. The only problem with that is keeping the bad stuff out.

[tim]

Looks like stack exchange uses MathJax for LaTeX rendering.

Markdown Editing Help

• http://www.mathjax.org/
• http://www.latex-project.org/

We implemented LaTeX on the wiki at my work and the engineers love it so far.