On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Maury Markowitz maury.markowitz@gmail.com wrote:
I used to think that too. Then I looked at the examples on the wiki page on the issue. Although I find TeX rather opaque, a much worst issue is obscurity through verbosity, which not only makes the formula difficult to understand, but the entire source of the article too. That's why I don't use CITE either.
We'd be talking about translating LaTeX input to MathML output automatically here -- no MathML input in the wikitext. It's certainly true that MathML is human-readable barely if at all, but it's more human-readable than PNG, which is what we output now. ;)