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Bug 53251 - VisualEditor: Math editor is called LaTeX, but that is not accurate and possibly confusing
VisualEditor: Math editor is called LaTeX, but that is not accurate and possi...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: VisualEditor
Classification: Unclassified
Editing Tools (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: High minor
: VE-deploy-2013-12-12
Assigned To: James Forrester
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Reported: 2013-08-23 10:02 UTC by Derk-Jan Hartman
Modified: 2013-12-14 01:37 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description Derk-Jan Hartman 2013-08-23 10:02:51 UTC
The editor has the title and tooltip "LaTeX". This is not entirely correct. It's just the math environment subset for LaTeX that we can handle and support.

The label also conflicts with the visual symbol, which clearly communicates the Math function using the sum symbol. Remember that many people might not even know what LaTeX even is, causing further confusion.

The problem here is that we want to explain to the user that we want him to enter the math using LaTeX, because otherwise he might not understand how to enter his formula. Perhaps that is why the LaTeX label was chosen.

We should find a better way. Perhaps using a label or placeholder. "Enter formula using AMS-LaTeX"
Comment 1 James Forrester 2013-11-26 19:43:19 UTC
I'm minded to just call it "Formula". Thoughts?
Comment 2 Gerrit Notification Bot 2013-12-07 02:33:53 UTC
Change 100112 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester:
Re-label the formula inspector to not be LaTeX

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/100112
Comment 3 Gerrit Notification Bot 2013-12-11 23:12:03 UTC
Change 100112 merged by jenkins-bot:
Re-label the formula inspector to not be LaTeX

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/100112
Comment 4 Rummana Yasmeen 2013-12-12 01:05:22 UTC
I am still seeing label Latex instead of Formula
Comment 5 Derk-Jan Hartman 2013-12-12 01:08:52 UTC
@ryasmeen Fixed != deployed to production. That happens at a later time, usually somewhere within 2 weeks after getting fixed.
Comment 6 Rummana Yasmeen 2013-12-12 01:10:10 UTC
okay but I checked it on Betalabs.
Comment 7 James Forrester 2013-12-12 04:06:35 UTC
This is now fixed in betalabs after we caused the English messages to get re-synched.
Comment 8 Rummana Yasmeen 2013-12-12 05:08:27 UTC
Verified in Betalabs
Comment 9 Rummana Yasmeen 2013-12-14 01:36:12 UTC
verified in test2:https://test2.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=13th_december&veaction=edit

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