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Ivan Shmakov
Jul 24, 2012, 2:06:05 AM7/24/12
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>>>>> Axel Berger <Axel....@Gmx.De> writes:
>>>>> Norbert Melzer wrote:
[Cross-posting to news:comp.text.xml, as this discussion is
somewhat related to MathML and SVG, and to
news:comp.infosystems.www.misc, too.]
>> You could try mathjax for this job.
> I have to endorse this if only for the ease of use and excellent
> results. But there's dubious or non-existent backwards compatibilty.
> On the downside, you have to allow running scripts from a third party
> site, not the one you visit,
MathJax is free software, and so can be freely downloaded and
put on any site.
> and if you want a fallback for non-script visitors, you have to
> provide that yourself. For that reason LaTeX generated PNGs with
> LaTeX source as Alt-text may still be preferable.
AIUI, most of the contemporary (graphical) Web browsers support
both MathML and SVG. Then, MathJax can be used (by the Web page
author; non-automatically, unfortunately) to obtain MathML (to
be embedded into the Web page) from the LaTeX source. Such
MathML will be available to non-script visitors just as well.
It still makes sense to use MathJax even along with MathML, as
it may render a much better picture for the formulae than
certain Web browsers.
Perhaps Node.js may be used to run MathJax at the server side,
but I'm not sure of that.
--
FSF associate member #7257 http://sf-day.org/
>>>>> Norbert Melzer wrote:
[Cross-posting to news:comp.text.xml, as this discussion is
somewhat related to MathML and SVG, and to
news:comp.infosystems.www.misc, too.]
>> You could try mathjax for this job.
> I have to endorse this if only for the ease of use and excellent
> results. But there's dubious or non-existent backwards compatibilty.
> On the downside, you have to allow running scripts from a third party
> site, not the one you visit,
MathJax is free software, and so can be freely downloaded and
put on any site.
> and if you want a fallback for non-script visitors, you have to
> provide that yourself. For that reason LaTeX generated PNGs with
> LaTeX source as Alt-text may still be preferable.
AIUI, most of the contemporary (graphical) Web browsers support
both MathML and SVG. Then, MathJax can be used (by the Web page
author; non-automatically, unfortunately) to obtain MathML (to
be embedded into the Web page) from the LaTeX source. Such
MathML will be available to non-script visitors just as well.
It still makes sense to use MathJax even along with MathML, as
it may render a much better picture for the formulae than
certain Web browsers.
Perhaps Node.js may be used to run MathJax at the server side,
but I'm not sure of that.
--
FSF associate member #7257 http://sf-day.org/
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