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archematics
Browser plugin to uncover lost mathematical treasures on the web.
More details on its features and operation can be found in the options page.
Installing archematics
Currently archematics may only be installed as a "development" plugin; although it is fully implemented and uses only well-known standard packages, publication policies of the various browsers will require some changes before it can receive approval as a plugin that can be installed normally. (For example, Firefox requires that all files in a plugin be under 4MB, but one of the packages this depends on is only distributed with files larger than that.) Therefore, to install it, you must:
First, create a distribution directory by either
- the build process below, in which case you are looking for the subdirectory named "archematics" of the top-level directory of the repository, or
- or, if you have a link to a zip file of a distribution directory (perhaps one was given to you), download the zip file and unzip it into the directory of your choice.
How you then install archematics as a development plugin depends on the browser:
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Firefox: open a new tab and enter "about:debugging" in the URL bar. Then click the "This Firefox" entry in the left column. Near the top right you will see a "Load Temporary Add-on" button. Click this button and navigate to the "manifest.json" file in your distribution directory in the resulting file browser. Select that file and the plugin will load. Then select the "Add-ons and Themes" item in the main Firefox menu and make sure the archematics plugin is enabled, and on its preferences tab the parts of it you want to use are activated. Then you can navigate to a web page where it applies. You will have to give it permission to run on that domain (using the "puzzle-piece" plug-in icon at the top right), and then reload the page and you should see it take effect.
Note in Firefox, each time you quit and restart the browser you will need to reinstall the extension if you want to use it (since it is only loaded as a development extension).
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Chrome: open a new tab and enter "chrome://extensions" in the URL bar. In the top right-hand corner, enable "Developer mode". Then click on the "Load unpacked" button at the top left. Navigate to the distribution directory in the resulting file browser, and click on Select. Once the extension is loaded, click on the "Details" button. About halfway down the page under "Site access" you can give archematics permission to work with the sites you want; and most of the way down the page click on
"Extension options" to make sure the features you want are enabled.In Chrome, the extension should remain installed for future browsing sessions as well, even when you stop and restart the browser.
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Edge: open a new tab and enter "edge://extensions" in the URL bar. On the left side near the bottom, activate "Developer Mode." Click on the "Load unpacked" button, and proceed as for Chrome.
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For other browsers, check the browser's documentation for how to load a tempory or unpacked extension; we'd be happy to include the procedures here if you let us know what worked for you. You can contact the developers by email at glen at archematics dot app
Enjoy seeing math treasures on the web in a whole old-that-is-new-again way!
Building archematics
- Install node v20 or later and pnpm v8.11 or later in your build environment
- Clone the repository https://code.studioinfinity.org/glen/archematics.git and enter its top-level directory
- Execute
pnpm install - Execute
pnpm build