Request for upload: supercollider 3.5.2 new version

[Felipe Sateler]

On Jun 1, 2012 7:04 AM, "Dan S" <danstowell+debmm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2012/6/1 Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>:
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > On 12-06-01 at 08:56am, Dan S wrote:
> >> 2012/5/31 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
> >> > I see that MathJax is included in the binary packages. Can't we use
> >> > libjs-mathjax?
> >>
> >> I don't really know mathjax myself but it looks like, technically, it
> >> could be patched to use libjs-mathjax, as long as our custom config
> >> file "HelpSource/MathJax/config/scmathjax.js" was installed in the
> >> appropriate place.
> >>
> >> However, the rendered help is supposed to be self-contained in the
> >> sense that it can be uploaded to a website (we do this with
> >> http://doc.sccode.org ) so if the URLs were rewritten to use
> >> /usr/share/javascript/mathjax/... then this would break. (And the help
> >> is supposed to be re-rendered by users - when the user installs an
> >> extension the rendering process is re-run locally.) So this makes me
> >> think that we would prefer not to. Is that OK with you?

Another option is to create a linkfarm pointing to the real mathjax
sources. This would avoid the problem, wouldn't it?

I think Raphael Hertzog wrote a tool precisely for this. I'm not on a
computer now, though, so I can't search for it.

>
> Hi Jonas -
>
> > Probably a good idea to then raise that issue over at
> > pkg-javascript-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
> >
> > (since you most likely are not subscribed to that list, please remember
> > to mention in the email that you want to be cc'ed on replies).
>
> I'm not sure there's an issue here that they can help with, unless I
> misunderstand? The issue is that the SC rendered helpfiles currently
> have a reference like this:
>
>  <script src='./MathJax/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS_HTML,scmathjax'
> type='text/javascript'></script>
>
> and if we used the libjs-mathjax package, the rendered helpfiles would
> have a reference like this:
>
>  <script
src='/usr/share/javascript/mathjax/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS_HTML,scmathjax'
> type='text/javascript'></script>
>
> This is unportable for exported helpfiles and that's why I'd prefer
> not to do it. It's OK for other software which expects to render the
> math on-the-fly for the local user and not export it anywhere. (For
> example ipython-notebook-common depends on the lib - I guess it's
> doing local math rendering only...)
>
> Please let me know what you think. I'll also pass this on to the
> person who actually did the mathjax bit and see if they have a good
> way round.

I think the idea was that maybe in that team somebody already had the same
problem and they could have a different solution.
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