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Math Virtual Keyboard Specifications - Version 0.2
Published on July 14, 2014.
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This is a updated to the math virtual keyboard specifications.
Layout
We can save one key having only one key to include the open and end brackets. The version save this key to add set operations.
Alternative Keys
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You can find a full list of Unicode characters and corresponding LaTeX command at http://milde.users.sourceforge.net/LUCR/Math/unimathsymbols.pdf.
More ...GSoC: July 07 - July 13
Published on July 13, 2014.
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This is one of the reports about my GSoC project and cover the eighth week of “Students coding”.
At this seventh week I give a talk at MathUI 2014 - 9th Workshop on Mathematical User Interfaces and fix small bugs at the keyboard. Bellow you will find more details about the past week and the plans for this one.
More ...GSoC: June 30 - July 06
Published on July 6, 2014.
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This is one of the reports about my GSoC project and cover the seventh week of “Students coding”.
At this seventh week I worked on "small" issues. Bellow you will find more details about the past week and the plans for this one.
Math Environment Key
I added a math environment key. Instead of using alternate for math display environment I chose to let the user type the math environment key twice.
More ...Apps Freezing for MathUI
Published on July 4, 2014.
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Today I update and freeze the apps for MathUI Demo Session. At this post you will find some screenshots of the apps.

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The screenshots was took using the tablet from Firefox OS Tablet Contribution Program running this week build:
- OS version: 2.1.0.0-prerelease
- Platform version: 33.0a1
- Build Identifier: 20140703235229
- Git commit info: 2014-0704 13:48:49 299b1836
I must say that this build have a patch that provide math font support.
More ...Import Lesson - Is it Possible?
Published on July 2, 2014.
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Some time ago, Greg Wilson wrote about the idea of import lessons. This is food for thought about it.
Version Control and Possibility to Fork Lessons
For individual lesson we should use a modern distribute version control system like Git or Mercurial.
The problem is what use to deal with the collection of lessons when import each one. We can think in use Git Submodule or Git Subtree but from my experience the better approach is use a tool on top of Git or Mercurial like git-repo. This approach will avoid the user learn the complexity of Git Submodule and let the user choose the version control system more suitable to he/she needs.
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