- From: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@upclink.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:43:39 -0500
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org, Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
On Friday, September 14, 2001, at 10:48 AM, Pat Hayes wrote: > I think it is almost impossible to get 'math' symbols to come > out right in more than about half the extant browsers. It might > be better to use &-escapes with the character names. I notice > that the Encyclopedia of Philosophy uses little gifs for things > like quantifiers and subset in its HTML, presumably in > desperation. Combining these two approaches in MINSE: http://web.lfw.org/math/ which takes plain text math such as: 'deriv(f(x), x) = 'lim((f(x+h)-f(x))/h, h->0) and converts them to ASCII art: d f(x + h) - f(x) ---- f(x) = lim ----------------- dx h -> 0 h or images: http://web.lfw.org:1718/@bar(d,dx)_f@paren(x)_@(dblbar)_@stk(@uprt(lim),@s ml(h_@(rtarrow)_0))_@bar(f@paren(x_+_h)_-_f@paren(x),h)_ -- [ "Aaron Swartz" ; <mailto:me@aaronsw.com> ; <http://www.aaronsw.com/> ]
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