muboard VS jsxgraph

Show HN: Mathematics Chalkboard with LaTeX and Markdown Support\ (15 comments)

I hope you like it. If you find any issues, please create a new issue or just tell me here. It will help to make the tool better.

Muboard: Mathematics Chalkboard with LaTeX and Markdown Support\ (9 comments)

Thanks! I am aware of LyX and I did try it earlier but I did not quite like its ergonomics. I guess I prefer non-WYSIWYG tools more than the WYSIWYG ones. Another thing I wanted from my tool is that after a book club meeting is over, I should be able to share the same board in a distributable format (a simple HTML that self-renders it as Muboard), so that the participants can later refer to the same snippets that we went through during the meeting.

I have explained some of the reasons behind writing this tool here: https://github.com/susam/muboard#why (see section "Why?").

Here are a few examples of what the distributable board files look like: https://antmeet.github.io/boards/ .

https://github.com/jsxgraph/jsxgraph

Shoutout to Prof. Wassermann for keeping up the good work.

JSXGraph was part of the European Erasmus+ program ITEMS (https://itemspro.eu). Aim of that project (and related projects where JSXGraph is / was included) is to research on "digital learning" in STEM subjects. The technical focus was on including JSXGraph in moodle courses with the question types STACK and formulas. For this and for certain mathematical topics, JSXGraph has been adapted through out the project.

JSXGraph has been started as a seminar at the University of Bayreuth in 2007. The list of developers is given in the copyright section of the source code, e.g. https://github.com/jsxgraph/jsxgraph/blob/master/src/jxg.js. After the students have left the University, the core developer team is much smaller. Luckily, meanwhile the user community is increasingly providing improvements and bug fixes.