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Smoke Test for Virtual Keyboard

Published on June 26, 2014.

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This post was previous published at blog.rgaiacs.com. Some links might got broken during the conversion from reStructuredText to Markdown.

I and my mentor agree to do an smoke test for the project and when the keyboard pass it we submit will submit the keyboard to Marketplace. Below is the smoke test.

Test DescriptionStatus

Switch row works?

Click on switch row keys.

<span style="color:green;">PASS</span>

Latin keyboard works?

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Nonlinear Input for (La)TeX IME

Published on June 25, 2014.

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This post was previous published at blog.rgaiacs.com. Some links might got broken during the conversion from reStructuredText to Markdown.

Since (La)TeX is a programming language (yes, it is a Turing-complete language) many of the math symbols are available as commands/functions and to help user type a text is need that the IME change the cursor position based on user inputs. At this post I will show what the IME that I'm writing should do with the cursor.

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Math Virtual Keyboard Specifications - Version 2

Published on June 25, 2014.

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This is a updated to the math virtual keyboard specifications.

Layout

When testing the keyboard I notice that is painful go to Symbol Layout to insert $ that marks the start and end of (La)TeX math environments. To solve this I add another key to the keyboard.

Alternative Keys

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MathML June Meeting

Published on June 22, 2014.

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Sorry for the delay in write this.

This is a report about the Mozilla MathML June IRC Meeting (see the announcement here). The topics of the meeting can be found in this PAD (local copy of the PAD <pad.txt>) and the IRC log (local copy of the IRC log <irc.txt>) is also available.

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GSoC: June 16 - June 22

Published on June 22, 2014.

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This is one of the reports about my GSoC project and cover the fifth week of “Students coding”, the one before mid term evaluation. You can watch the current state of the project at video <midterm-demo360p.mp4> (or the 720p version of it <midterm-demo720p.mp4>) where I used this release of my project running at a build of Firefox OS with font that support math.

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