Re: ASCIIMathML or LaTeXMathML for HTML?

From: Darlan Cavalcante Moreira <darcamo@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ASCIIMathML or LaTeXMathML for HTML?
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:47:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4b62bcd5.0c11660a.4cff.ffffb0e8@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871vh9wnjv.fsf@columbia.edu>

A good alternative for creating web pages with math is using jsMath [1]. It uses
java script to replace latex notation with symbols in some fonts provided by
it. It works really well after everything is setup and does not suffer the
problem of poor mathML support by some browsers, since its only javascript.

Because the replacements are done only when the web page is viewed the publishing
from org-mode is really fast (you need to tell org-mode not to interpret or
replace any latex syntax in the equations). Also, after google chrome was
released and every browser is increasing javascript speed the replacements when
the web page is viewed in a browser are fast even when there are a lot of
equations.

There is a page in worg [2] that explains how to get jsMath working with
org-mode.

 - Darlan

[1] http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/
[2] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-jsmath.php

At Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:19:16 -0500,
Xiao-Yong Jin <xj2106@columbia.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Lately I stumbled upon AsciiDoc[1], which uses
> ASCIIMathML[2] or LaTeXMathML[3] to export math formulae in
> XHTML documents.  Both of these two MathML approaches seem
> very nice to me.  I am not sure if anyone has brought this
> up.  But I see org-mode info says
> 
>        (1) Yes, there is MathML, but that is not yet fully supported by
>     many browsers, and there is no decent converter for turning LaTeX or
>     ASCII representations of formulas into MathML. So for the time being,
>     converting formulas into images seems the way to go.
> 
> Admittedly, not all LaTeX functionality are supported, and
> only Mozilla/Firefox supports MathML fully.  But I think it
> is a decent way to support simple formulae in org-mode for
> people who just want to view their notes in Firefox.
> 
> [1] http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/
> [2] http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/mathml/asciimath.html
> [3] http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/personal/drw/lm.html
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