RE: Math in the Page Authoring Guidelines

IBM has a plug-in for Netscape and IE that reads TEX and LaTex documents and
soon MathML documents. Have not tested it, just know it exists.

http://www.software.ibm.com/enetwork/techexplorer/

you can download a demo version from
http://www.software.ibm.com/enetwork/techexplorer/downloads

Jim Allan, Statewide Technical Support Specialist
Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756
voice 512.206.9315    fax: 512.206.9453  http://www.tsbvi.edu/
"We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964

> -----Original Message-----
> From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org]On
> Behalf Of Jason White
> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 1998 3:58 PM
> To: WAI Markup Guidelines
> Subject: Re: Math in the Page Authoring Guidelines
>
>
> Currently, there are few solutions available in this area. MathML, once
> supported by appropriate braille and speech output software, will work,
> but it is difficult to incorporate MathML into an HTML document at this
> stage. I understand that most authors use in-line images as a kludge to
> present the mathematical notation visually. Perhaps as an interim measure
> they could use LaTeX markup as convenient ALT text (it has the advantage
> of being relatively compact and well known).
>
> The other alternative would be to use OBJECT to incorporate each
> mathematical expression into a document:
>
> <object type\"text/xml" data="equation1.xml" Equation 1, marked up in
> MathML </object>
>
> and likewise for every mathematical expression in the document.
>
>

Received on Tuesday, 8 December 1998 17:26:48 UTC