Re: [WWdevel] jsMath v2.0 and WeBWorK

[John J. <jj...@as...>]

> On Aug 16, 2005, at 11:20, John Jones wrote:
>
>> Personally, I would favor ease of installation over saving on cvs  
>> data.  A way of doing both would be to have it as a single tar  
>> archive, and let webwork deal with it.  When it looks for the  
>> images, if they don't exist it looks for the image archive file.   If 
>> that exists, webwork untars it automatically.  I think the path  to 
>> tar is already in global.conf.
>
>
> This would certainly be convenient for the administrator, but I'm not  
> sure it would be worth it. Currently, static files are served by  
> Apache directly, without WW's involvement. Involving WeBWorK in the  
> delivery of static files could only be bad for speed.
>
> I guess right now I'd go for extracting the tarball manually.

I was assuming that jsMath would already have some code in it to check 
for the fonts since it detects if you have TeX fonts available.  But, 
now that I think about it, the checking of TeX fonts can be done client 
side in javascript whereas checking for images would be done on the 
server side.  So, it is a different story.

John