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RE: equations on the web



Mark,
Every conversion program that I know of makes every single
equation into a gif file. However, that makes the downloading of the
web page a long process. I use Scientific Workplace to make tex files
that I put into postscript, pdf, and html format. When I used
Latex2html it made the thousand gif files necessary to write solutions
for a homework set. However, I found tth (Tex to HTML) which uses just
the greek letters, subscript, and superscript. Even though html has
these, it doesn't look as good as it does in postscript or pdf format.
The good news is that there is an approved Math ML (Markup
Language) but now Netscape and Microsoft need to be pressured into
integrating it. Below I have included the announcement of this
convention.


Sam Held


This is from a collegue of mine:

Maybe this will be the death knell for LaTeX2html, useful as it is. The
WWW Consortium (which counts Tim Berners-Lee among its members) has
finally defined a markup language for mathematics. Maybe us physics
types will be able to display equations in web documents without needing
the workarounds used by LaTeX2html (use TeX to render the equation, turn
it into a GIF, wedge the GIF into the web doc, ...). Here's a URL if
you're interested in more info:

http://www.w3.org/Press/1998/MathML-PR

All that has to happen now is for browsers to understand MathML ...

Dave

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David Morrison Brookhaven National Laboratory phone: 516-344-5840
Physics Department, Bldg 510 C fax: 516-344-3253
Upton, NY 11973-5000 email: dave@bnl.gov
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