Comments on: MathML, TeX, LaTeX, TeXvc, MimeTeX, oh my! http://jeffmcneill.com/2007/01/24/mathml-tex-latex-texvc-mimetex-oh-my/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:45:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: physicspirate.com » Blog Archive » Using math formulas in wordpress 2.0 http://jeffmcneill.com/2007/01/24/mathml-tex-latex-texvc-mimetex-oh-my/#comment-30 physicspirate.com » Blog Archive » Using math formulas in wordpress 2.0 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:12:31 +0000 http://jeffmcneill.com/2007/01/24/mathml-tex-latex-texvc-mimetex-oh-my/#comment-30 <p>[...] a couple of interesting blogs talking about the troubles of trying to get math on the internet.  Jeff McNeill and sixthform.  The crew at sixthform is doing a great job, they spend alot of time updating, [...]</p> [...] a couple of interesting blogs talking about the troubles of trying to get math on the internet.  Jeff McNeill and sixthform.  The crew at sixthform is doing a great job, they spend alot of time updating, [...]

]]> By: Reiner Wilhelms-Tricarico http://jeffmcneill.com/2007/01/24/mathml-tex-latex-texvc-mimetex-oh-my/#comment-31 Reiner Wilhelms-Tricarico Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:13:54 +0000 http://jeffmcneill.com/2007/01/24/mathml-tex-latex-texvc-mimetex-oh-my/#comment-31 <p>This is very refreshing, oh my! The really funny thing, due to the complicated discussion (and online battle) about which math rendering method to use, I now arrived after hours of tinkering with all these packages, configuration files of apache, mediawiki, and who knows what ; at a solution where I can suddenly render latex commands in my (local only) wiki, but don't have a clue which of the distributions I am using! That is the most confusing software "installation" I've seen so far.</p> This is very refreshing, oh my! The really funny thing, due to the complicated discussion (and online battle) about which math rendering method to use, I now arrived after hours of tinkering with all these packages, configuration files of apache, mediawiki, and who knows what ; at a solution where I can suddenly render latex commands in my (local only) wiki, but don’t have a clue which of the distributions I am using! That is the most confusing software “installation” I’ve seen so far.

]]> By: Paul Topping http://jeffmcneill.com/2007/01/24/mathml-tex-latex-texvc-mimetex-oh-my/#comment-29 Paul Topping Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:01:56 +0000 http://jeffmcneill.com/2007/01/24/mathml-tex-latex-texvc-mimetex-oh-my/#comment-29 <p>"MathML is not widely implemented (IE 7 still uses a plug-in??!)" refers to my company's free MathPlayer plugin (www.dessci.com/mathplayer). Perhaps I'm overly sensitive, but this sounds like the writer thinks that plugins are a bad thing. It is not that simple:</p> <ul> <li><p>While everyone would prefer that the latest version of everything come with a single install, or magically with no install at all, this is not going to happen.</p></li> <li><p>While MathPlayer is technically a plugin, it ties directly into IE's guts and renders MathML at high speed. Sometimes, when people read "browser plugin" they think of the old Netscape-style plugins and OBJECT tags. MathPlayer is not this kind of plugin.</p></li> <li><p>MathPlayer actually supports more MathML than Mozilla and Firefox and has features that they don't, such as MathZoom which lets one zoom up any equation with just a click so that one can better see small accents, subscripts, etc. It also works with screen readers that the blind use to read web pages and actually speaks the math.</p></li> </ul> <p>Just thought your readers should know.</p> <p>Paul Topping Design Science, Inc.</p> “MathML is not widely implemented (IE 7 still uses a plug-in??!)” refers to my company’s free MathPlayer plugin (www.dessci.com/mathplayer). Perhaps I’m overly sensitive, but this sounds like the writer thinks that plugins are a bad thing. It is not that simple:

  • While everyone would prefer that the latest version of everything come with a single install, or magically with no install at all, this is not going to happen.

  • While MathPlayer is technically a plugin, it ties directly into IE’s guts and renders MathML at high speed. Sometimes, when people read “browser plugin” they think of the old Netscape-style plugins and OBJECT tags. MathPlayer is not this kind of plugin.

  • MathPlayer actually supports more MathML than Mozilla and Firefox and has features that they don’t, such as MathZoom which lets one zoom up any equation with just a click so that one can better see small accents, subscripts, etc. It also works with screen readers that the blind use to read web pages and actually speaks the math.

Just thought your readers should know.

Paul Topping
Design Science, Inc.

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