PaulTopping

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by PaulTopping 8y ago
The reason to have a 2D graphics library as part of the C++ Standard is to allow one to write a C++ program that does graphics such that it has only one dependency: an implementation of the C++ Standard. It won't be for everyone and ce
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by PaulTopping 10y ago
One of my biggest complaints about Peter K's "MathML is a failed web standard" is that most people read that without taking note of "web" in the middle. MathML has been quite successful in publishing and as a comput
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by PaulTopping 10y ago
Good answer. TeX is an input language and is fairly good at what it does for mathematicians. From a programming language and systems point of view, it is an ancient, ad hoc mess. TeX could be used as a computer representation, but it fails
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by PaulTopping 10y ago
Most of you guys seem to be suffering under a big misconception. MathML was never intended to be typed by humans. Perhaps a few programmers might need to do it but not mathematicians, students, engineers, scientists, etc. Saying things like
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by PaulTopping 17y ago
Actually, MathJax.org is our preferred URL.
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by PaulTopping 17y ago
MathML allows math to be rendered to speech for people with disabilities, something that LaTeX won't do. It is also a much more solid REPRESENTATION. It is not an input language like LaTeX. Think of LaTeX as YOUR favorite math UI, whereas M
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by PaulTopping 17y ago
MathML is not a human input language! MathML is a representation. While comparisons with TeX and LaTeX are inevitable, they serve different purposes. Look at the HTML/CSS used to render a dynamic menu sometime. I'm sure it is pretty ugly to
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by PaulTopping 17y ago
Word got out on MathJax a little early, as things tend to do on the web. We barely got a sample page up. Although it probably won't matter, our hope is you don't hammer MathJax too hard until we get things going and officially announce. Ver
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by PaulTopping 17y ago
Our free MathPlayer plugin for IE enables it to display MathML. Except for having to be installed, it is as "native" as it can get. It even works with screen readers to speak the math for those that need that. See http://www.dessci.com/mat