Difference between revisions of "Summer of Code 2008/proposals"

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Starmath

Improve Equation Editor

DRAFT

Concerns: OpenOffice.org 3.x all versions

Objective: currently, the equations editor has some issues (including very old one) and they need to be fixed

- misalignment

- missing symbols

.. (complete me)

FIXME : add the list of concerned issues

Skills: skills with languages C/C++ (tokenization, debugging ) maths symbols and good math knowledge (for equations writing ) is a plus.

Good communication skills are expected too (because several modules are concerned )

Tasks:

Familiarize with the starmath editor code

Familiarize with links in writer (writer is concerned in some issues)

Expected:

For issue 972

- code to Implement a new parameter for baseline computation without edit equations

- write specs for add a the info in the .odt format

- design a proof of concept

- implement it

Complete : other little math issues ( e.g. missing |-> and <-| symbols .. etc )

Contact

dev@education.openoffice.org

ericb at openoffice dot org

Proposed by

Eric Bachard, Thomas Lange (to be confirmed)

Mentor

Eric Bachard (to be confirmed)