Re: Show-and-tell: equation annotation for MathJax

[Hypatia <knight.of.lambda.calculus-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Sorry for the misleading typo... I didn't mean you to do that... lol

On Thursday, November 23, 2023 at 12:03:51 AM UTC-5 Hypatia wrote:

> I just asked about a similar thing: 
> https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/7679.
>
> I'm going to see if you can hack up something based on your code. Thanks a 
> lot!
>
> On Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 3:27:53 AM UTC-5 Guillaume Dehaene wrote:
>
>> Yes, that's correct. This is a smart-margin feature.
>>
>> It wouldn't be too hard technically and probably desirable to annotate 
>> individual elements of an equation block
>> (for example, consider highlighting a term being moved from one side of 
>> the equal side to the other in two successive equations)
>> However, I've run into two design / UX issues when considering this case:
>> - in the final HTML, how would the user interact with the annotation:
>>   - to see that an element is annotated (needs to work with nested 
>> annotations, with multiple annotations, etc)
>>   - to see which elements are concerned by the currently-displayed 
>> annotation (without interfering with the "is annotated" styling of the 
>> other elements of the equation block)
>>   etc
>> - how would the writer specify the annotation, in a way that isn't too 
>> disruptive of their normal workflow?
>>   - this is the bigger issue for me. without a rich-text editor which 
>> supports highlighting of individual math elements, I don't know how to 
>> handle this
>>
>> even If I had a great answer, there remains the issue of hacking it 
>> inside of MathJax.
>> At this point, it might be better to actually fork their code, instead of 
>> writing something a posteriori
>>
>> I'd love to have it as a feature someday, but it's in the distant future.
>>
>> Le lun. 13 nov. 2023 à 17:32, Gwern Branwen <gw...-v26ZT+9V8bxeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org> a écrit :
>>
>>> So this does not let you annotate individual elements of the equation to 
>>> provide popups/links or color them, but is only whole-equation level and 
>>> basically a way to a margin-note/sidenote that aligns nicely with the 
>>> equation?
>>>
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