Re: [Bug-gnupedia] math content

[Maxim A. Pyatnitski]

I think that for  maths, LaTeX is really what has to be taken as the
baseline. From working in a University Engineering department, and from
feedback from colleagues in Physics and Mathematics, most mathematical
writing is done either in MS Word (with equation editor) or in LaTeX.
Generally, the more mathematical the material, the more likely it is to be
LaTeX. 

I think that supporting the format most of the work is done in, and
therefore reducing the effort needed to incorporate the work into this
corpus,  should make it easier and quicker to build up a body of
contributions.

Surely there is a way to translate LaTeX into MathML, i'll look into it
anyway.

just my 2 cents
m

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 06:11:04PM -0000, Duncan Lock wrote:
>       I am not a mathematician but I looked into this a while ago for
> another project. I would say MathML is the way to go here. Unfortunatly it
> isn't very well supported in browsers at the moment. IE4/5 half arsedly
> supports it and Mozilla aslo has some support (although I can't remember how
> much) As for creating MathML content you've got even less choice really. On
> the free front you could look at amaya from the wc3 no less (www.w3.org)
> which is CLUNKY but will produce MathML (amongst other things)
>       Maybe MathML on the backend but translated to something else (an
> image?) for the client end?
>       Just a suggestion.
> Dunc.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> > Behalf Of Thomas E. Vaughan
> > Sent: 17 January 2001 4:50
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: [Bug-gnupedia] math content
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > For some time I have been thinking about writing free
> > instructional/reference content for physics and math.  This 
> > encyclopedia
> > project may be just the thing to motivate me to get going.  I 
> > am wondering,
> > however, about the issue of standards and policies, beyond the mere
> > "HTML-only" rule advertised in the announcement.  In 
> > particular, what about
> > mathematical content?  LaTeX is by far the easiest way to 
> > produce text with
> > math content, and I suppose that latex2html could be used to 
> > provide HTML
> > articles for submission.  But it seems to me that at the outset some
> > thought ought to be given, for example, to the use of MathML.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Thomas E. Vaughan <address@hidden>
> > CIMMS/NSSL, Norman, OK, USA
> > 
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