[Wikipedia-l] Math markup

[Jens Frank]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 04:00:35PM -0600, Lightning wrote:
> why not MathML? its a standard, its already supported by mozilla/netscape,
> and their derivatives, and sooner or later MS will have to add it to IE.. i
> just think this is the way to go...

MathML only works together with XHTML, which is not compatible to HTML.
MathML is not easy to edit, TeX is much easier (Sic!).
It is possible to create MathML from TeX-input if we plan
to go that way any time in the future.

JeLuF

> 
> > The question of TeX markup for equations & obscure symbols has cropped
> > up a few times -- consider it bumped again :)
> >