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I think if you look at the MathML standard or some example markup you'll understand. MathML is prohibitively verbose. It comes in two flavors, display and struc
by fusiongyro 13y ago
I think if you look at the MathML standard or some example markup you'll understand. MathML is prohibitively verbose. It comes in two flavors, display and structural, and neither one is amenable to busting out equations. Even when MathML is universally supported by browsers it will still be treated as fundamentally an interchange format seldom seen by human eyes, mostly generated by systems like MathJax from human-friendly TeX.
As long as you're converting TeX math to something else, MathML is preferable only because it may look nicer rendered than an image raster from TeX.
- colanderman 13y agoWhy not target SVG?
- ovangle 13y agoMathML is a valid compile target for TeX equations, it doesn't matter how easy it is to write by hand nor does it matter how verbose it is. It is intended to be an interchange format seldom seen by human eyes or written by human authors.
- cma 13y agosvg with a alt tag of the TeX source...
- fusiongyro 13y agoWhen the OP says "if scientists have an easy way of creating markup versions of their LaTeX files" it sounds like they'll be writing it by hand, don't you think? Alternatively, a toolchain involving compilation to HTML+MathML doesn't sound to me like a problem for browser vendors.
- justincormack 13y agoAnd we write markdown not HTML. So what? Images are a terrible non solution.
- fusiongyro 13y agoHTML is not user-hostile and MathML is. I'm saying this has something to do with lack of uptake for the latter.