Wikibooks:Reading room/Proposals/2012/November

Settings for Mathjax
Is it possible to change the local configuration changes for mathjax to make it easier to use LaTeX formatting to get equations and automatically updated equation numbers? The following changes would be very helpful for the wikibook http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Parallel_Spectral_Numerical_Methods&stable=0 ,

Benson Muite (discuss • contribs) 17:02, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I added tags. --Dereckson (discuss • contribs) 17:07, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

An example of how such a configuration helps LaTeX users create a wiki can be found here: http://www.sherryruan.com/mediawiki/ Benson Muite (discuss • contribs) 15:46, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

New Book On Blender?
I was wondering if a new book should be created called "BEYOND BLENDER RENDER: A GUIDE TO THE BLENDER GAME ENGINE". I know about "NOOB TO PRO" but that is for an earlier version of Blender (2.49 I believe). This would be for 2.63 (a) and specifically the Game Engine. Downdate (discuss • contribs) 13:31, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Creating a new book is a huge task, but if you're up to it, I say go for it. It might be better to update Noob to Pro so that it addresses the current version of Blender, and perhaps add more material on the game engine aspects, but that's your call. --Jomegat (discuss • contribs) 13:40, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
 * We would need to seperate 2.49(b) and 2.63(a) in NOOB TO PRO. About a new book: I will think about it. By the way: How do you create a new book? Downdate (discuss • contribs) 20:32, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
 * There's a good guide on doing that at Using Wikibooks/Starting A New Wikibook. --Jomegat (discuss • contribs) 00:26, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks Downdate (discuss • contribs) 13:42, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Hurrah! for the great idea. I recently downloaded Blender. I hope to use it to implement virtual puzzles; of course that will require some expertise in using the game engine. I've started to read _Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro_. I intend to keep a journal of my progress. I think it will be very important to keep in mind the experience of being a Noob; that may make any comments more likely to be suitable for the goal of encouraging other Noobs. Feel free to post a "New Topic" on my talk page in the Wikiversity. P.S. I am planning a complete revision of my book on Rubik's Cube, having found other sources of great information on line and in other Wikis. This revision would probably be a good opportunity to move the material to Wiki books. Ray Calvin Baker (discuss • contribs) 23:52, 13 November 2012 (UTC)


 * It looks like I have a lot more reading ahead of me. That's life! The important thing -- I have downloaded Blender 2.64a release for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows operating systems. This is what I will be studying. Ray Calvin Baker (discuss • contribs) 01:02, 16 November 2012 (UTC)