This is a useful analysis. Is Toby being fair to each method?
It strikes me that we should be liberal about what we accept, and conservative about what we print. There are many complications, of course.
Toby Bartels 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...
As markup used for *input*???
HTML: 2 + 2 = 4
PediaWiki: 2 + 2 = 4
LaTeX: $2+2=4$
MathML: <math><mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>+</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow><mo>=</mo><mn>4</mn></mrow></math>
HTML:
<pre> −<i>b</i> ± √(<i>b</i><sup>2</sup> − 4<i>a</i><i>c</i>) <i>x</i> = ---------------- 2<i>a</i> </pre>
PediaWiki: −<i>b</i> ± √(<i>b</i><sup>2</sup> − 4<i>a</i><i>c</i>) <i>x</i> = ---------------- 2<i>a</i>
LaTeX: $$x=\frac{-b\pm\sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}$$
MathML: <math><mrow><mi>x</mi><mo>=</mo><mfrac><mrow><mrow><mo>-</mo><mi>b</mi></mrow><mo>±</mo><msqrt><mrow><msup><mi>b</mi><mn>2</mn></msup><mo>-</mo><mrow><mn>4</mn><mo>⁢</mo><mi>a</mi><mo>⁢</mo><mi>c</mi></mrow></mrow></msqrt></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>⁢</mo><mi>a</mi></mrow></mfrac></mrow></math>
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