Downloading Equation Lists

MathCast can download equations from websites or from other MathCast users. Additionaly MathCast can expose the equation list that's being worked on over the Internet to be viewed by web browsers.

Downloading equations from a web page

To download all equations from a web page on the internet, from the Edit Screen, click on the File menu, and select “Download...”.

In the textbox, enter the URL of the web page, for example:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/start.xhtml
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/demo/texvsmml.xhtml
http://www.mathjax.org/demos/mathml-samples/

Please note that MathCast may not be compatible with all equations from other web pages.

Downloading equations from other MathCast users

To download an equation list from another working MathCast instance, from the Edit Screen, click on the File menu, and select “Download...”.

In the textbox, enter the IP of the computer you want to download from, for example: “192.168.131.1”. If the port number is different than 80, then you can specify the port after a colons sign, for example “192.168.131.1:8085”.

The MathCast on the other end must be set as a server. To enable this feature, enter the Settings window, check the “Enable HTTP Server” checkbox, and enter a port number for incomming connections.

Viewing MathCast Using Web Browsers

Using Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome browsers, you can view and download another MathCast user's equation lists (That user must have HTTP Server enabled):

To download another user's equation list directly, in the address bar, write down http://192.168.131.65:8085/list.xml.
To view another user's equation list, in the address bar, write down http://192.168.131.65:8085/math.xml or just http://192.168.131.65:8085.
In order to have the list refresh every five seconds, write down http://192.168.131.65:8085/refresh.xml.
You can set an arbitrary number of seconds by entering http://192.168.131.65:8085/refresh.xml?interval=3.