Output sympy equation to word using mathml

[Yuxiang Wang]

(cross-posting between here and SO)

Dear all,

It seems that MathML works OK with my word with simple copy and paste for strings such as

<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mfrac><mn>1</mn><mn>2</mn></mfrac></math>

But when I try to use sympy's mathml printer:

from sympy import S
from sympy.printing.mathml import mathml
my_eqn = S(1) / 2
print(mathml(my_eqn))

The output is:

<apply><divide/><cn>1</cn><cn>2</cn></apply>

And I cannot copy and paste it into word to make it a Word equation.

Could anyone please help?

Thank you,

Shawn

[Aaron Meurer]

(cross posting my SO answer here)

Looks like the MathML that works is [presentation
MathML](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML#Presentation_MathML),
whereas SymPy outputs [content
MathML](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML#Content_MathML).
Unsurprisingly, Word is unable to convert from content to
presentation, as that requires some degree of mathematical knowledge
on the part of the software.

SymPy [probably ought to
support](https://github.com/sympy/sympy/issues/11893) outputting
presentation format, but until that is implemented, you might try to
find some other software that can convert between the two (I don't
know of any myself, unfortunately).

Aaron Meurer

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[Denis Akhiyarov]

Not cross-posting from SO:

WORD supports LATEX, so does SYMPY.

Here are more details:

http://superuser.com/a/509805/299586