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Math Alternative Keys

Published on June 14, 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.

Part of the symbols at the math virtual keyboard are accessible as alternative keys. This is the first list of it.

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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.

Main KeyAlternative Key
Symbol | Unicode | (La)TeXSymbol | Unicode | (La)TeX
√ | 0221A | \sqrt{}n√ | | \sqrt[n]{}
< | 0003C | <
        | +         |         | +         |

≤ | 02264 | \leq

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First Release of Math Virtual Keyboard

Published on June 9, 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.

Although there still many important features to add and minor fixes I would like to make available the first "all-in-one" prototype of the math virtual keyboard.

Extra Patch

Last week I wrote about the prototype that use the IME Switch Key <../03/flatfish_and_la_tex> and this "all-in-one" prototype join the previous layouts into one and add some changes into apps/keyboard/js/keyboard.js that request some conversation with Keyboard App owners and Firefox OS UX team.

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GSoC: June 02 - June 08

Published on June 8, 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.

This is one of the reports about my GSoC project and cover the third week of “Students coding”.

At this third week I almost finish the problems with the layout. Bellow you will find more details about the past week and the plans for this one.

Math Keyboard Layout

I wrote a little about the layout for the keyboard in another post <../05/math_key_spec> and will happy to get feedbacks.

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Another Hacking Gaia Tutorial

Published on June 6, 2014.

More than two months ago I had update a tutorial that Salvador de la Puente González wrote about hacking Gaia, the Firefox OS UI. Most of the steps are the same but using Simulator 2.0 is a little different and at this blog post I will cover this changes.

Step 0: set-up

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If you want pictures related with this part, go to the previous tutorial.

  1. Install Firefox. If you want you can try use the nightly version of Firefox but I’m getting a little problem with it, for more information see Bug 1020520.
  2. Enter about:app-namager in the URL bar.
  3. Click on “Start Simulator at the bottom of the page.
  4. Click on “Add”.
  5. Click on “Install Simulator”.
  6. Select “Install Firefox OS 2.0 Simulator (unstable)” and follow the steps to install the simulator.

Step 1: Download and hack Gaia

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Virtual Keyboard for Tablets

Published on June 5, 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.

Yesterday a friend wrote a blog post regarding the Firefox OS Tablet Keyboard where he compare the virtual keyboard of Firefox OS Tablet with the virtual keyboard of others players (webOS, Android and iOS).

IMHO, one of the main points of the blog post was:

"To make our keyboard more useful we could use some new keys such as (...) number row. We could use a number row on top or some clever way to input numbers."

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