[texhax] Math in HTML (was Blogs)

[Alberto Vecchiato]

Hi, I'm not an expert in the subject, but what about MathML? According to 
popular voices it is not standard, not all browsers support it, etc. etc., but 
I did some little experiments with firefox and it seems to support MathML very 
well. I suspect these voices could be outdated and that there could be a 
little inertia in adopting it.

As regards the TeX to MathML translator, there are many available. I tried 
Ttm, which is free of charge for Linux and non-commercial use, and it gave 
very good results not only for equations, but also for tables, figures, 
bibliography and indexes. You can find it at

http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/mml/

and its manual is available online at

http://web.mit.edu/tth_v3.21/www/ttm_manual.html

You can find many more converters at the following address:
http://www.w3.org/Math/Software/mathml_software_cat_converters.html#Ittm__a_tex_to_mathml_translator

Enjoy!

Alberto Vecchiato

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Chris Rowley wrote:

> Victor Ivrii wrote --
>
>> Well, html has rather primitive equation ability, one can display many symbols
>> http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/symbols.html
>> but alignment is a big problem.
>
>>
>>>
>>> So I think the most useful way to reframe the question might be: is
>>> anyone aware of a LaTeX to HTML converter that does *not* use images for
>>> equations, and if so, how does it work?  As I said, I don't know of one,
>>> but others on this list know a lot more than me.
>>
>> html limitations give you no choice
>
> Our reasonably systematic requirements analysis supports these
> conclusions and is the reason why we are unsure that it is worth
> putting much effort into representing technical material in HTML.
>
> The more ancient amongst us will recall the 90s near-disaster of
> naively adding math elements to the HTML DTD.
>
> So until browsers understand that 21st Century culture will not be
> usefully digitised purely via West European text, and hence support a
> reasonably large slection of XML vocabularies, we are sticking to PDF,
> despite its deficiencies for browsing.
>
> Chris Rowley
> Maths Online Project
> Open University, UK
>
>
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