From: "Lars Lindqvist" <larli66@hotmail.com>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Diagrams on the WWW ?
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 20:39:41 CET [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000109193941.99363.qmail@hotmail.com> (raw)
Paul and Michael,
There is perhaps no realistic alternative to LaTeX for writing mathematics
today, but MathML is a language for the future and I like the visions and
the goals associated with this language. I will not try to argue for MathML
here because this is done in the specification (actually a draft) at
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-MathML2-19991222. As discussed in Section 1.3.1
(Layered Design of Mathematical Web Services) MathML provides the lower
level of a two layer architecture where LaTeX would be a language (tool) at
the higher level (generating MathML code).
There already exists several different tools for converting LaTeX to MathML
so a straightforward solution would be to construct a converter also for
some popular diagram specification language (package). Since MathML does not
support the specification of complicated labelled diagrams the output would
be a mixture of MathML and e.g. VML (or SVG) which are markup languages for
vector graphics. This would also be in accordance with Section 7.1.5.2 of
the MathML specification.
So I suppose I have to reformulate my question from my first letter and ask
whether there are any such tools or converters?
I do not know much about the PDF format. When I publish a document written
in LaTeX on the web I usually generate a postscript version and a PDF
version (generated using Adobe distiller).
Thanks for your replies.
Lars L
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