Re: Any kind of mimetex extension planned around?
| From: | Yannick Warnier | Date: | Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:36:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Any kind of mimetex extension planned around? | ||
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Le mercredi 02 avril 2008 à 16:16 +0200, Pierre Joye a écrit :
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Yannick Warnier <ywarnier@beeznest.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was looking for a mimetex/mathtex (latex interpreter, converts latex
> > syntax into GIF images) extension on pecl.php.net but apparently there's
> > nothing around for that purpose, so I just wanted to know if anybody
> > would possibly be working on something like that, and if anybody would
> > be interested. Basically, a good subset of mathematical expressions can
> > be dealt with by the MathML W3C standard (and that would be enough for
> > me) but it implies installing a plugin for all Internet Explorer
> > versions as they do not support SVG generation, and that is not
> > acceptable for my user base.
>
> I'm not sure to understand the relation between SVG and MathML, can
> you elaborate please?
My understanding (but I must admit I haven't studied this element too
closely yet) is that MathML is using SVG to render mathematical
expressions in ascii writing to graphical expressions, thus relying on
SVG to work.
I might be wrong though. I'm just in the first step of analysing the
possibilities so far.
Yannick