<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Alexander Rieder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexanderrieder@gmail.com">alexanderrieder@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Monday 07 June 2010 22:00:13 Aleix Pol wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
> I've been chatting with a high school teacher discussing how can we use KDE<br>
> Edu to teach math in schools (since it's both our fields).<br>
> He created some very nice class where he guides the student for one hour<br>
> explaining some basic math properties using KAlgebra, of course this is not<br>
> ready for use yet but it's a start. The idea is to distribute during the<br>
> class directly these documents to the students so that they can work<br>
> themselves with our software. Ideally different teachers will be able to<br>
> contribute new documents and share themselves content, thus win-win-win<br>
> situation.<br>
><br>
> I think that we all agree that it is a great way to work until here.<br>
> Problems:<br>
> - We don't have a good place to share that kind of stuff.<br>
> -> I'm not sure KDE Files fits our needs. It's not free, it's<br>
> centralized, I'm not sure it's easy to contribute incrementally.<br>
> -> we could consider using wikis but they are hard to integrate with our<br>
> software<br>
> -> we could do something ourselves but that means work<br>
> -> we could use anything I don't know of, so please help :)<br>
> - We should introduce translation of such content, that leads me to the<br>
> next point.<br>
> - Formats are totally fragmented.<br>
> -> Cantor worksheets use rich text format which is fine but generating<br>
> .pot files from that and new cws sounds hard because it's not just plain<br>
> text. (Albert? any hint)<br>
> -> If we propose to use ODT, which is the sanest format in my opinion, we<br>
> are disabling teachers to use Cantor to create the classes. Is it possible<br>
> to export Cantor worksheets to ODT?<br>
> -> Does anybody know how hard would it be to make ODT translatable?<br>
> -> Does anybody have a better solution than those?<br>
<br>
</div></div>Hi,<br>
Cantor doesn't use richtext format. It uses a custom file format (I know thats<br>
bad).<br>
It basically is a zip file containing all the images contained (as png, jpg or<br>
eps files) and a content.xml that is a Cantor specific XML file binding it all<br>
together. I also would like to note that Cantor will soon gain the ability<br>
have Worksheet Entries that are entirely Rich Text, so we will have to store<br>
that one too.<br></blockquote><div>Well, that means we could "easily" export some .pot for translation, no?</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Exporting to ODT is not supported, but in the 4.5 version rudimentary export<br>
to LaTeX as well as plain text(e.g. to use as a script file) is possible.<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Is there any reason for not using ODF standards instead of our proprietary format? do you plan on iterating on that?</div>
<div>why using LaTeX?</div><div>Don't you think having cantor as a free math contents hub would be really nice?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br>
So far the situation on from a Cantor Point of View.<br>
<br>
best regards,<br>
<font color="#888888">Alexander<br>
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