Subject: Re: Equation Editor. (fwd)
From: Pierre Abbat (phma@oltronics.net)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 10:25:13 CDT
>Does this mean f as an function of (a+b) or f multiplied with (a+b). It's
>impossible to tell. But if this is written in MathML, it's unambiguous. This
>means that it can be processed algebraically in another program (e.g.
>Mathematica) or rendered in several ways (e.g. as speech). The equation editors
>I know about are based on visual presentation ((La)TeX too).
>
>MathML comes in two "flavours", presentation and content. But even if you use
>presentation-based mark-up, it'll still be possible to understand if you mean f
>as a function of (a+b) or the prodcut of the variables f and (a+b). This is
>accomplished using entity references like &invisibletimes;.
>
>One solution I would like for an AbiWord equation editor is a way to create
>*good* content MathML using a "verbal" language. One program which uses this is
>Dave Raggett's (the editor of the HTML specification) EZMath. Here you write
>mathematics like you would speak it, and it outputs (good) content MathML. This
>is *very* easy to use and to learn, and actually faster than using a purely
>visual equation editor. Here's some examples.
Has anyone tried writing a program to translate from Lojbau mekso to MathML? If
Lalo is still around, he might know more about it than I do.
phma
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