From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/1334 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lars Lindqvist" Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: Diagrams on the WWW ? Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 20:39:41 CET Message-ID: <20000109193941.99363.qmail@hotmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241017757 30771 80.91.229.2 (29 Apr 2009 15:09:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:09:17 +0000 (UTC) To: categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: rrosebru@mta.ca Mon Jan 10 11:19:19 2000 -0400 Original-Received: (from Majordom@localhost) by mailserv.mta.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA21139 for categories-list; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 09:36:28 -0400 (AST) X-Authentication-Warning: mailserv.mta.ca: Majordom set sender to cat-dist@mta.ca using -f X-Originating-IP: [194.18.4.243] Original-Sender: cat-dist@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Original-Lines: 33 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:1334 Archived-At: 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 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com