[tug-summer-of-code] Project idea - contribute to the mathtran-javascript library

[Jonathan Fine]

Here's a draft project statement (for TUG's Google Summer of Code 
application)
     http://tug.org/gsoc/ideas.html

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MathTran is a public web service, that translates TeX-notation 
mathematics into high-quality bitmap images, primarily for inclusion on 
web pages. This development of MathTran was funded by JISC and The Open 
University.  At present MathTran serves about 30,000 images a day.
     http://www.mathtran.org
     http://jisc.ac.uk
     http://www.open.ac.uk

MathTran is similar in many ways to Google Charts.
     http://code.google.com/apis/chart/
http://jonathanfine.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/google-charts-mathtran-and-editable-png-files/

There is already some JavaScript code that helps us use MathTran on web 
pages, but there is not nearly enough, and what we have is somewhat 
scrappy and dependent on the browser.
     http://www.mathtran.org/js/mathtran_img.js
     http://www.mathtran.org/js/mathtran.js

Much more could be done with better JavaScript, and that's why the 
mathtran-javascript project has been set up.
     http://code.google.com/p/mathtran-javascript/

This project is a good opportunity for someone who is interested in 
writing high-quality low-level JavaScript.  No knowledge of TeX is 
required, although an interest in mathematics or related areas would be 
helpful.

-- 
Jonathan