A new draft of MathML-3 has just come out. It has a bunch of good maturations. But it also has a very nice new section on clipboard support which could generalize.

We are pleased to announce that release 1.0 of ActiveMath is finally available.

ActiveMath 1.0 is a stabilization of years of ActiveMath development and a polish of most of its features. The highlights of this release are:

• New learner model SLM (Simple Learner Model)
• Slumb is now the default MBase
  • supports content reloading
  • improved error reporting for authors
• New languages for the user interface:
  • Français (French)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
• Extended user help system
• Improved overall performance and stabilty

ActiveMath 1.0 is nearing completion and we are happy to announce the availability of the release candidate 1. It can be seen at: http://am-preview.activemath.org/.

This tasks explains how to download an extasy exercise into one’s own collection.

The question of storage of OMDocs keeps coming… why the hell do you, in ActivMath, use your own storage solution for OMDoc fragments and not one of the classical SQL or XML databases? Below is a short answer, helped by Eliotte Rusty Harold.

This tasks explains how to create a trivial interactive exercise in source form and see it in the exercise system.

ActiveMath can be integrated into a Moodle server by the usage of a proxy with the Moodle’s Apache. This configuration includes single-sign-on as well as special linking facilities. We explain the set-up here.

Quite often, it is impossible for ActiveMath’s http port to be well accessible from the world. Firewalls, and other measures make the ActiveMath port 8080 inaccessible.

The Apache Web Server is the most used Web-server in the world, it is easy to deploy, is cross platform etc. This page explains how to use Apache’s mod_proxy to serve ActiveMath within the Apache space.

This chapter describes the various methods to deploy and install ActiveMath as part of a larger infrastructure, such as a school network, a firewall, or a learning management system.

As part of the ActiveMath-EU effort, integration into open-source LMS have to be considered. This time I am following a hack that find somewhat elegant to integrate into Moodle an ActiveMath that is “slaved by this Moodle”: both Moodle and ActiveMath share a domain, and Moodle’s Apache config is extended to proxy to ActiveMath all queries in a sub-path. In turn, ActiveMath can use this to read identity of the queries. Have a test on our test moodle

This book will contain installation instructions for the ActiveMath server.

For now, see the following disparate and not up-to-date resources:

• the Unix how-to-install
• Windows how-to-install
• how to compile

and the pages below…

To Whom It May Concern

Phase 1

You have a mathematical idea, you want to share it, invite others to comment, and exchange opinions.

• How have you phrased your idea?
• On paper, on a computer, or otherwise? Please let us know. [poll ?]

This typography step is pretty classical, the encoding basically attempts at encoding the appearance of the blackboard into an interface such as the LaTeX language or the Maple UI.

Hello Activemathers. I wanted to invite persons using recent CVS snapshots of ActiveMath to try the content-storage I have been working on thus far. It is called Slumb, and is expected to be better than LuceneMBase.

Any chance of having a somewhat more aesthetically pleasing logo ?

OMDoc documents are made of mathematical items which can contain mathematical formulas; the latter may be presented to the screen or print media. The ActiveMath presentation system uses XSLT and Velocity to convert the OMDoc fragments to rendered HTML, XHTML, or PDF. For the mathematical formula to be presented well, an amount of notations are defined which produce XSLT templates.

This handbook page explains by examples how notations are conceived, authored, and used in ActiveMath.