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Sankalp <sankalpkhare@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear Brian,
>
> On 2 February 2012 23:24, brian powell <briangpowellms@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>     * Dear Venkatesh Choppella:=C2=A0Thanks for the notes on teaching
>     OrgMode etc.: While reviewing your class notes and emails to your
>     class about OrgMode and TeX/LaTeX I came across your suggestion
>     to students to play with:
>=20=20=20=20
>     http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
>=20=20=20=20
>     ** Detexify can be useful; but, this may give your students more
>     traction/uses:
>=20=20=20=20
>     http://webdemo.visionobjects.com/equation.html
>
>
> ^^ This is awesome! :D

I have not followed the above 2 links so my comments here could be out
of context ...

>     ---which not only suggests an equivalent TeX/LaTeX; it provides a
>     MathML suggestion as well.

Org/OpenDocument exporter can convert from LaTex to MathML using
MathToWeb. One can also use MathJax to see the MathML equivalents of a
LaTex snippet. In my experience, MathJax seems to be more mature
compared to MathToWeb.=20

See (info "(org) Working with LaTeX math snippets")

>     *** Disclaimer: I have no relations to=C2=A0visionobjects.com that I
>     know of (but the example site looks free to play with at least).

Well, nothing is free. Everything that you type in there is a test case
for their software. Also they win over an enthusiast or a detractor
depending upon how well you have crafted your input.
--=20