jEditOQMath is a package to bundle the jEdit editor along with special facilities to create OMDoc documents for use in the ActiveMath learning environment.
Writing documents with jEditOQMath involves writing OQMath documents. The latter are, almost, OMDoc documents. OMDoc is an XML syntax for mathematical documents which targets both textual and formal content. The difference between OQMath and OMDoc is in the mathematical formulae, where OQMath formulae are readable and user-typable.
The following features are currently provided as part of jEditOQMath:
jEditOQMath is a pack of quite many open-source packages, please see the project home page:. You’ll find there a list of ingredients, their license, and for more technical and legal details.
jEditOQMath has been planned to support authors write content for the ActiveMath learning environment. We thus suppose that you have a copy of ActiveMath running locally on your machine. TODO: need to refer to installation pages here.
It is possible to use jEditOQMath without ActiveMath, however, the facilities that explicitly target integration will simply not work. The wealth of XML-editing will still be yours, and usage of OQMath and QMath for readable formula input will be there as well (see math-input).
Do take the time to adjust the path to ActiveMath home within the OQMath plugin settings:
Plugin > Plugin Options… Then click OQMath jEdit then press the Choose…
button and navigate to the directory where you have installed ActiveMath
(the one containing the conf directory).
You should follow the installation instructions and, in particular add the following lines to your ActiveMath-individual.properties file so that your ActiveMath reloads for authoring:
It may also be wise to declare your preferred user-name to be an author so that some extra facilities are activated (including search and instant item opening). Supposing the ActiveMath user-name you use is poincarre, you should insert the following lines in ActiveMath-individual.properties:
user.authors = poincarre user.admins = poincarre