Open Source Research

Posted by Roger Critchlow-2 on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Recent-AMS-articles-and-reviews-tp519469p519474.html

Owen Densmore wrote:

> One weakness we face in this area, I think, is the difficulty of
> publishing mathematical notation in a widely available fashion.  There
> is the W3C "MathML" effort but it does not seem to have taken off.  It
> would sure be nice to cut/paste an equation and integrate/graph with in
> commonly available tools.

How would you figure out whether "MathML" had "taken off", given it's of
interest to a vanishingly small proportion of the internet population?

I hadn't checked in a while, but it turns out that it's implemented in
all current Mozilla based releases, ie Mozilla, Netscape, and Firefox,
and all that's needed for me to render the test pages at:

        http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/

is to install a few fonts, courtesy of Wolfram Research.  Supported
under Windows, Linux, and MacOSX.

Actually, check out the implementations page:

        http://www.w3.org/Math/implementations.html

Best from a fast connection as there are a lot of screenshots to
download, and last updated 6/19/2004.

There's a free Internet Explorer plugin for rendering MathML if you're
still playing Redmond Roulette.

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