[FRIAM] ASCIIMathML.js demo

[Russell Standish]

Some things work for me, but not all. For instance \in doesn't
display, nor do some of the font changes. Too much is missing for this
to be really useful. I am running Mozilla 1.7, but I will be
reluctantly updgrading to the latest Firefox soon (or Seamonkey if
Firefox annoys me too much). Reluctant because Firefox seems to be a
worse interface than Mozilla, just like KDE is a worse interface than FVWM.

I may be a curmudgeon, but I still miss Mosaic's "Clone this page"
feature, even if there's nothing else about Mosaic I miss. I switched
to Netscape in '96 and to Mozilla in '03. The Netscape->Mozilla
transition was not too painful.

Cheers

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 09:57:00PM -0600, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> It works for me.
> 
> -- rec --
> 
> On 7/29/07, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:
> >
> > Executive summary: Can we as a community rely on MathML compliance
> > within our browsers?
> >
> > Details: I've come across an interesting javascript equation builder
> > that takes an ascii string in backticks (i.e. ` ... `) and converts
> > it to MathML.
> >    http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/mathml/asciimath.html
> >
> > This is nifty, but has one pretty bad downside: it requires your
> > browser to support MathML.  I seem to recall some hassles like
> > downloading weird fonts and so on.  From my notes:
> >         - MIT MathML Fonts: Mathematica 4.1 TrueType
> >           Note: Installer did not include CMSY10 CMEX10 (TeX computer
> > modern),
> >           due to a bug.  To stop annoying popup about missing fonts, use:
> >           user_pref("font.mathfont-family", "Math1, Math2, Math4,
> > Symbol");
> >           Put in prefs.js or use about:config creating new pref.
> > In other words, your basic 2 hour fussing around.  This may no longer
> > be a hassle.
> >
> > Here's a page where you can build your own samples using ASCIIMathML:
> >    http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/mathml/asciimathdemo.html
> >
> > So here's the question: Can we rely on MathML for our collective
> > work?  Or do we have to use .gif's for all our math we'd like to
> > exchange with one another?
> >
> >      -- Owen
> >
> >
> >
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