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Abandon implicit latex support in surveys
Page Overview
[Hide]- 1 Reasons to Abandon Feature
- 2 Additional Information
- 2.1 Involved Authorities
- 2.2 Technical Aspects
- 2.3 Contact
- 2.4 Funding
- 3 Discussion
- 4 Implementation
1 Reasons to Abandon Feature
There is an implicit support for latex in surveys. Implicity means, there is no button offering to add tex (like in other parts of the system), but you could enter tex tags manually that would be interpreted later.
This implicit support should be removed with ILIAS 11, since it is a) quite hidden and b) surveys are a main tool for doing evaluations and have no need to present mathematical formulaes (as do content components or tests).
2 Additional Information
2.1 Involved Authorities
- Authority to Sign off on Conceptual Changes: Killing, Alexander [alex]
- Authority to Sign off Code Changes: Killing, Alexander [alex]
If this request is related to multiple components, please list both authorities for all related components.
2.2 Technical Aspects
No technical issues.
2.3 Contact
Person to be contacted in case of questions about the request or for funding offers: Killing, Alexander [alex]
2.4 Funding
Funding status and funding parties are listed in the block 'Status of Feature' in the right column of this page.
If you are interested to give funding for abandon this feature, please get into contact with the person mentioned above as 'Contact'.
3 Discussion
Use the following discussion section to express your objections against this request or your consent to get rid of this feature.
JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 27 OCT 2025: We follow Alexander's suggestion and abandon the implicit support of LaTex in surveys with ILIAS 11. Please remove the outdated test cases in Testrail.
4 Implementation
In the current trunk version, this implicit support does not work, so there does not seem to be any code that needs removal.
Removed Testcases
The following testcases have been removed from Testrail or modified because the feature is no longer part of the ILIAS core.
- {Test case number linked to Testrail} : {test case title}
Approval
Approved at {date} by {user}.
Last edited: 27. Oct 2025, 14:14, Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]