1. Mentored by Jose Benito and Pedro Ferreira
Google Summer of Code 2013
Rich Abstract Editor
Indico Software
by Pedro Gaudêncio
Mentored by Jose Benito and Pedro Ferreira

2. What is Indico? Lecture web application Meeting
to schedule and
organize events
Meeting
Bunch of complex features
call for abstracts, registration,
e-payment, timetable, badges
creation, paper reviewing, etc
conference

3. Plain text editor vs Rich text editor?
<textarea>
<textarea>
Wow, *now*
I'm **beautiful**!
this text
is boring
</textarea>
</textarea>
<div id=”text-preview”>
Wow, now
I'm beautiful!
</div>

4. The Goal: produce beautiful abstracts
Enhance the editing
and submission
of abstracts
editor example

5. PDF The Goal: produce beautiful abstracts
and produce its corresponding rendered result in a
PDF

6. The technologies used PageDown editor Mathjax Latex
Takes markdown text and converts
it into raw HTML (that browsers
natively render) and previews the
result in real time on a canvas
PageDown editor
Takes LaTeX, MathML and
AsciiMath math notation
and renders them in the
browser using web-based
fonts and CSS
Mathjax
It's a document preparation system
that includes features designed for
the production of technical and
scientific documentation
Latex

7. replace the plain textarea by the PageDown Editor
The actual work 1
replace the plain textarea by the PageDown Editor
Take the old
plain text input area
Just replace
By the pagedown
stuff
HTML/css/JS

8. The actual work 2 make Pagedown work along with Mathjax1 2 3
Store the $math$
In the text in an array
And replace the text with
Let pagedown Handle
The markdown text
Replace the
By the $math$
Previosly stored
Render the math in the pagedown previewer

9. render the inputted markdown/mathjax text
The actual work 3
render the inputted markdown/mathjax text
Convert the markdown
Text to Html and
Render The template

10. The actual work 4 Generate a pdf from the template and retrieve it
Update the lost-in-time
markdown2latex extension
For the python-markdown package
adding some features
Replace the
Reportlab pdf
Template system
By latex templates
Regex headaches