Jan.Hidders wrote:
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 01:45:07AM +0200, Marian Steinbach wrote:
would using MathML (an XML language for description of mathematic formulas) be an option?
That has been suggested before and there has been quite some debate over that. As far as I remember most people were in the end in favour of TeX/LaTeX because:
- it displays on a wider range of browsers
- its easier to read
- more people know it
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I've just had a look at the TeX to HTML convertor: the results are horrible on my browser: mathML or rendered images from source is the way to go, I think.
I suggest something like this:
0 Use TeX in the Wiki source (perhaps in <tex> </tex> delimiters?) 1 Convert TeX to MathML. 2 Serve MathML to modern browsers 3 Serve rendered images of MathML (eg, using the Gecko engine) to users with old browsers.
Why not render TeX directly? Because the MathML "bottleneck" will ensure that everyone sees the same thing, and it also provides a way to move eventually to supporting native MathML in the source, when MathML is a mature, editable, format in most browsers. Even better would be if we could do a 2-way TeX <-> MathML conversion, but that's probably asking too much.
Neil