Comments on: Pretty equations in HTML

By: The paperCrane’s view from the reverseFold » ASCIIMathML Wordpress Plugin

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:43:06 +0000

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By: papercrane

papercrane — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:59:39 +0000

Poojan Wagh : BTW: Doesn’t Firefox support MathML natively? Why go from AsciiMath to MathML to SVG?

As I explain above, Firefox does support MathML but it needs some javascript to actually interpret it. In addition, MathML is pretty complex and verbose, whereas the simple ASCII format that ASCIIMathML supports is very convenient for typing equations.

By: Poojan Wagh

Poojan Wagh — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:00:53 +0000

BTW: Doesn’t Firefox support MathML natively? Why go from AsciiMath to MathML to SVG?

By: Poojan Wagh

Poojan Wagh — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:59:17 +0000

I would really like whatever you could send to me. I’m right now using MIMETEX to display equations as images. I’d much prefer MathML/SVG (w/ image fallback).

By: David

David — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:42:56 +0000

You might take a look at some work I’ve done on this, to convert ASCIIMathML to TeX expressions and render them through MimeTeX. This conversion can be done clientside or serverside. The clientside version allows MathML to be used when the browser supports it, and images when it doesn’t.

See http://www.pierce.ctc.edu/dlippman/asciimathtex/AMT.html

By: papercrane

papercrane — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:29:52 +0000

I’d love to post it as a plugin but since it requires various command-line programs and causes quite a bit of server-side load on the first view of the equations I’m hesitant to package it up for now…

By: stelt

stelt — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:17:49 +0000

I totally love it.
Can you please ask the wordpress.com guys to add it?
When they don’t, it still added some attention to MathML and SVG, which is really needed.

I guess i have to add this to my SVG link resource at http://svg.startpagina.nl