[kde-edu]: Math formats in KDE Edu

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dilluns, 7 de juny de 2010, Aleix Pol va escriure:
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've been chatting with a high school teacher discussing how can we use
> > KDE Edu to teach math in schools (since it's both our fields).
> > He created some very nice class where he guides the student for one hour
> > explaining some basic math properties using KAlgebra, of course this is
> > not ready for use yet but it's a start. The idea is to distribute during
> > the class directly these documents to the students so that they can work
> > themselves with our software. Ideally different teachers will be able to
> > contribute new documents and share themselves content, thus win-win-win
> > situation.
> > 
> > I think that we all agree that it is a great way to work until here.
> > Problems:
> > - We don't have a good place to share that kind of stuff.
> > 
> >   -> I'm not sure KDE Files fits our needs. It's not free, it's
> > 
> > centralized, I'm not sure it's easy to contribute incrementally.
> > 
> >   -> we could consider using wikis but they are hard to integrate with
> >   our
> > 
> > software
> > 
> >   -> we could do something ourselves but that means work
> >   -> we could use anything I don't know of, so please help :)
> > 
> > - We should introduce translation of such content, that leads me to the
> > next point.
> > - Formats are totally fragmented.
> > 
> >   -> Cantor worksheets use rich text format which is fine but generating
> > 
> > .pot files from that and new cws sounds hard because it's not just plain
> > text. (Albert? any hint)
> > 
> >   -> If we propose to use ODT, which is the sanest format in my opinion,
> >   we
> > 
> > are disabling teachers to use Cantor to create the classes. Is it
> > possible to export Cantor worksheets to ODT?
> > 
> >   -> Does anybody know how hard would it be to make ODT translatable?
> >   -> Does anybody have a better solution than those?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Aleix
> > 
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> Oh, I forgot, I think it should be a format okular friendly, at least.

Okular has pluglable backends to support new formats so you can always write 
one of them if needed ;-)

Albert