On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 12:18:59PM +0200, Jan Hidders wrote:
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 01:11:14AM -0700, Toby Bartels
wrote:
Jan Hidders wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
>Jan Hidders wrote:
You intend to render [$...$] by calling LaTeX (possibly using a script to
render simple things in other ways, but still ultimately to make LaTeX the
arbiter of meaning), right?
Exactly. And these other ways could also be MathML, for example.
But now should I understand that you won't
normally use it in an
expression like [$x^2y = z_1$]; you'd write [$x^2$][$y$] = [$z_1$], and
save the full power of LaTeX for the fancy stuff? That would keep people
from trying [$x% = x/100$], mostly.
Ah, isn't communication wonderful if it works. :-) Actually I would even
expect people to write [$x$]<sup>2</sup>[$y$]. However, if I'm honest I
have to admit that my fingers would be itching to change that to [$x^2y =
z_1$].
Hi,
regarding "%": I think we don't need TeX-comments in our formulas. We could
just replace % by \percent{} before passing the input over to TeX.
regarding "simple style vs. complex formulas": I changed the parser of my
proof-of-concept-code to first check whether the formula is "simple", that
is only contains: digits, letters (small+capital), +-*/=(), ^, _, {}
and blanks. If this is the case, the formula will be set as HTML using
<sub> and <sup>.
An example can be seen at
http://jeluf.mine.nu/jf/newcodebase/wiki.phtml?title=Triangle
I still use [[math: ... ]]-syntax, the code is prepared to also support [$ $], too.
Before implementing this I wanted to wait for Lee's proposal for the future
Wiki Markup Language.
Regards,
JeLuF