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Re: [Fwd: My future of HTML position paper]

From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 13:31:23 -0400 (EDT)
To: html-future@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95q.980513132941.27486D-100000@napier.uwaterloo.ca>
On Wed, 13 May 1998, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor writes:
>  > use a graphics programs to create a GIF file, I'd use a MathML editor to
>  > create my MathML document and embed it the same way I embed an image in my
>  > document. 
> 
> I wonder how many mathematicians who use TeX write
> 
>   It is a universally acknowledged truth that \input{1001.tex} is a
>   good thing
> 
> and then open 1001.tex and type \epsilon=mc^2
> 
> I suspect they are not very productive.

Good point.  I was thinking about the block level numbered formulas that
often appear in documents.  The actual MathML is quite large.  I wasn't
thinking about simple inline formulas.

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Russell O'Connor                           roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
    <URL:http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eroconnor/>
``And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message''
-- Anindita Dutta, ``The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy''
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