LeMill Blog

Hi, with version 3.0.12 there are few fixes and some great new features for visual editor in LeMill, the one that is used whenever something more complex needs to be written.

• Adding and removing cells to and from existing tables is now supported. There are several buttons for these specific tasks that are activated only when cursor is over a table.
  

  Buttons for adding and removing rows and columns.

• There is a button and a special sheet for adding and previewing LaTeX -code for mathematics and physics equations. LeMill now uses Google’s API to provide the TeX-to-image transformation, so it should be fast. See How to Write Equations in LeMill.
• There is a button for adding rarer unicode symbols for math characters and Greek alphabeth etc. See help page for Drawing Symbols.
• The editor itself is updated to TinyMCE’s latest version, 3.4b2. It should provide a better support for IE 9-family and the engine for reading and filtering html is rewritten.
• Also LeMill’s engine for parsing edited text has been rewritten in a simpler and more readable fashion. There may be some oddities in first few days. In worst case, if tags are  lost and page becomes unreadable when editing, use ‘History’ to restore a working version.

Our hosting company is moving to newer, faster servers and the move will require our main database to be out of service for the time required for transfer of files. The break will occur at late friday night, probably between 22-03.

Otherwise, the year has started well with another small upgrade last weekend (8-9.1). Added features include:

• Added a link to member’s collections at member’s profile page.
• Added a link to browse those resources that don’t have language / subject / tags set. Now anyone can help to add languages / subjects / tags to those  resources that miss these. Especially language is important, because if it is not set, the resource is often not listed.
• Removed option ‘other people can only edit a copy of this resource’ as it was used with too light causes. Incremental evolution of learning resources and co-operation is what LeMill endorses.
• Added support for embedding Google Docs, Presentations, Spreadsheet, Forms and Drawing into webpages and exercises.
• Translations are temporarily disabled as we are designing a better solution for supporting them without creating unnecessary or unintended copies of resources.