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One aspect Of TeX on the web (via mathJax, say) is that the source is meaningful. I maintain that in the not so distant future, someone is going to write a math
by mixedmath 11y ago
One aspect Of TeX on the web (via mathJax, say) is that the source is meaningful. I maintain that in the not so distant future, someone is going to write a math-search engine (or at least they should), and the key will be interpreting the latex source behind documents and webpages. I do not think this would be possible if we used mathML or raw svg data.
- jahewson 11y agoOn the contrary, TeX markup is mostly concerned with presentation and not semantics. For example, in TeX we don't know if f(x + 1) means function application or multiplication by f. MathML however, allows for a complete semantic description of an equation, as well as a presentational description. However, people are generally too lazy to use semantic MathML.
- JadeNB 11y ago> I maintain that in the not so distant future, someone is going to write a math-search engine (or at least they should) I think this is one of those things that has been in the not-so-distant future for longer than you'd think. See [Mathematical knowledge management](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_knowledge_management https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_knowledge_managem...) for a general overview, and [OMDoc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMDoc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMDoc) in particular. This mathematician-but-not-expert-in-this-stuff particularly associates [Michael Kohlhase](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kohlhase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kohlhase) with research in the area.