LaTeX Keyboard in the Firefox OS Marketplace!

Google Summer of Code 2014 is about to end and next Monday is the official pencils-down date in which our students should stop producing code. Fortunately, I’m proud to announce my mentee, Raniere Da Silva, has released his LaTeX Keyboard for Math in the Firefox OS Marketplace. Notice you need Firefox OS 2.0 or greater to use it.

The keyboard includes:

• Five layouts for a default English input, numbers and symbols, greek letters (with uppercase variations), functions and operators.
• The common forms of functions and operators contain alternatives for less common variations of themselves.
• An input assistant to automatically enter and leaving LaTeX math contexts.
• Placeholder navigation between LaTeX math commands.

Math keyboard for Firefox OS

I did not mention it before but I’m mentoring a project for Mozilla in the Google Summer of Code of this year. My mentee is Raniere Silva, a math student from Brazil. He is working on a mathematical keyboard and he just released a demo today. There is already work to be done, of course but the project is working well. Check the demo following his tutorial about how to install the new Math layouts on a Firefox OS device (Flatfish tablet included!)

Greek letters layout

Common math functions