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I was patrolling the options in localOverrides and when I reached these:

# This sets if mathview is available on the PG editor for use as a minimal latex equation editor
#$options{PGMathView} = 1;
# This sets if WirisEditor is available on the PG editor for use as a minimal latex equation editor
#$options{PGWirisEditor}= 1;
# This sets if MathQuill is available on the PG editor for use as a minimal latex equation editor
#$options{PGMathQuill}= 1;

I'm not seeing any effect when I enable any of them and visit the editor. What should I be looking for? Do these features still work in 2.17?

Re: LaTeX editor in PG editor

by Danny Glin - Monday, 3 October 2022, 11:57 AM

In 2.17 there is nothing in the code that checks those options. In 2.16 and earlier the problem editor checked those options and loaded some javascript accordingly.

I'm guessing that this feature was intended to be analogous to what is available for MathView in essay questions (you can see this by setting your course entry assist method to MathView and then viewing an essay question), though it's unclear to me if it ever worked.