Please, Gmail team, implement this, and all the mathematicians,
physicists, chemists, etc. etc. will use Gmail exclusively for their
communication.
I constantly receive emails from collaborators which contain something
like $\mathcal O(n^3)$ in them. I'd like to see these formulas!
Now I know that this is possible to do in Gmail's "basic HTML" or
"print" views with the aid of <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/ vaatmo/">this Greasemonkey script</a> written by Steve Chang.
It follows that it should be possible to do the same in the standard
view as well. We don't have access to the Gmail's internals to
implement this. But for people at Google this should be pretty easy,
right? Pretty please?
What would be even more fantastic if one could have a "LaTeX to
MathML" preview when composing a Gmail message. This would be just
priceless for scientific communication. Do it for the science!
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> Please, Gmail team, implement this, and all the mathematicians,
> physicists, chemists, etc. etc. will use Gmail exclusively for their
> communication.
> I constantly receive emails from collaborators which contain something
> like $\mathcal O(n^3)$ in them. I'd like to see these formulas!
> Now I know that this is possible to do in Gmail's "basic HTML" or
> "print" views with the aid of <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/ > vaatmo/">this Greasemonkey script</a> written by Steve Chang.
> It follows that it should be possible to do the same in the standard
> view as well. We don't have access to the Gmail's internals to
> implement this. But for people at Google this should be pretty easy,
> right? Pretty please?
> What would be even more fantastic if one could have a "LaTeX to
> MathML" preview when composing a Gmail message. This would be just
> priceless for scientific communication. Do it for the science!
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It would be nice to support LaTeX. However, it should be noted that
while research mathematicians and very math-oriented scientific
researchers might use it, most people that work with math are not
interested in a LaTeX interface and would prefer a more user-friendly
interface like Microsoft Equation Editor or MathType (my company's
product). Remember, most math is not created by mathematicians but by
educators, scientists in virtually all technical fields, economists,
and book and journal publishers.
A math editing feature should also allow MathML to be pasted in since
many applications, such as MathType, Mathematica, and Maple, can
generate it. That would even allow handwritten math entry using
Windows 7's Math Input Panel or MoboMath.
You might also want to look at MathJax (www.mathjax.org), a JavaScript-
based math display engine for all modern browsers that works with math
in both LaTeX or MathML. If the math editor produces MathML, it can
make the math accessible to people with print disabilities via screen
readers and other AT software.
> Please, Gmail team, implement this, and all the mathematicians,
> physicists, chemists, etc. etc. will use Gmail exclusively for their
> communication.
> I constantly receive emails from collaborators which contain something
> like $\mathcal O(n^3)$ in them. I'd like to see these formulas!
> Now I know that this is possible to do in Gmail's "basic HTML" or
> "print" views with the aid of <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/ > vaatmo/">this Greasemonkey script</a> written by Steve Chang.
> It follows that it should be possible to do the same in the standard
> view as well. We don't have access to the Gmail's internals to
> implement this. But for people at Google this should be pretty easy,
> right? Pretty please?
> What would be even more fantastic if one could have a "LaTeX to
> MathML" preview when composing a Gmail message. This would be just
> priceless for scientific communication. Do it for the science!
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In fact, with the help of MathJax, implementing both LaTeX and MathML
in Gmail seems to be almost trivial. It merely involves inserting a
small piece of Javascript into the headers. But this has to be done by
Google, on the server side.
> It would be nice to support LaTeX. However, it should be noted that
> while research mathematicians and very math-oriented scientific
> researchers might use it, most people that work with math are not
> interested in a LaTeX interface and would prefer a more user-friendly
> interface like Microsoft Equation Editor or MathType (my company's
> product). Remember, most math is not created by mathematicians but by
> educators, scientists in virtually all technical fields, economists,
> and book and journal publishers.
> A math editing feature should also allow MathML to be pasted in since
> many applications, such as MathType, Mathematica, and Maple, can
> generate it. That would even allow handwritten math entry using
> Windows 7's Math Input Panel or MoboMath.
> You might also want to look at MathJax (www.mathjax.org), a JavaScript-
> based math display engine for all modern browsers that works with math
> in both LaTeX or MathML. If the math editor produces MathML, it can
> make the math accessible to people with print disabilities via screen
> readers and other AT software.
> Paul Topping,
> Design Science
> On May 4, 9:03 pm, va.at.mathoverflow wrote:
> > Please, Gmail team, implement this, and all the mathematicians,
> > physicists, chemists, etc. etc. will use Gmail exclusively for their
> > communication.
> > I constantly receive emails from collaborators which contain something
> > like $\mathcal O(n^3)$ in them. I'd like to see these formulas!
> > Now I know that this is possible to do in Gmail's "basic HTML" or
> > "print" views with the aid of <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/ > > vaatmo/">this Greasemonkey script</a> written by Steve Chang.
> > It follows that it should be possible to do the same in the standard
> > view as well. We don't have access to the Gmail's internals to
> > implement this. But for people at Google this should be pretty easy,
> > right? Pretty please?
> > What would be even more fantastic if one could have a "LaTeX to
> > MathML" preview when composing a Gmail message. This would be just
> > priceless for scientific communication. Do it for the science!
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> Please, Gmail team, implement this, and all the mathematicians, > physicists, chemists, etc. etc. will use Gmail exclusively for their > communication.
> I constantly receive emails from collaborators which contain something > like $\mathcal O(n^3)$ in them. I'd like to see these formulas!
> It follows that it should be possible to do the same in the standard > view as well. We don't have access to the Gmail's internals to > implement this. But for people at Google this should be pretty easy, > right? Pretty please?
> What would be even more fantastic if one could have a "LaTeX to > MathML" preview when composing a Gmail message. This would be just > priceless for scientific communication. Do it for the science!
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