- From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 18:18:56 +0000 (GMT)
- To: cudax@csv.warwick.ac.uk (malcolm clark)
- Cc: r.hazeltine@nepean.uws.edu.au, www-html@w3.org, chris.lilley@mcc.ac.uk
malcolm clark said: > On Tue, 7 Nov 1995, Robert Hazeltine wrote: > > Can someone fill me in on the state of play with features of HTML3 dealing > > with formulas, maths and the like? Our library wants to include exam papers > > in its Web pages which contain material that goes beyond HTML2. > > > > Any suggestions would be helpful. > acrobat, acrobat, acrobat...... Coming soon to a Unix platform near you (but not very soon) an alternative - <embed href="foo.tex"><caption>Equation 37</caption> Some equations, also available in <a href="bar">other formats</a></embed> Embed is the proposed replacement for FIG. > html3 maths is a bit limited at best. probably up to > a-level standard (i.e. pre-university). Better than inlined GIFs though. Another possibility is to use the Euromath DTD (again with embed). > and personally > i doubt that it will ever be implemented generally. Repeat often; makes it come true. Note: if anyone in UK HEI would like to see the HTML 3.0 math given more of a push from W3C, drop me an email. Ditto if you think (like Malcolm) that it achieves nothing and should not be pushed for. I am keen to determine UK HEI views on this matter. As monolithic applications give way to extensible applications (via plugins) or flocks of cooperating applets I see no reason that equation support should be any harder to arrange than, say, inline Director or inline VRML. -- Chris Lilley, Technical Author and JISC representative to W3C +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Manchester and North HPC Training & Education Centre | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Computer Graphics Unit, Email: Chris.Lilley@mcc.ac.uk | | Manchester Computing Centre, Voice: +44 161 275 6045 | | Oxford Road, Manchester, UK. Fax: +44 161 275 6040 | | M13 9PL BioMOO: ChrisL | | Timezone: UTC URI: http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/staff/lilley/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
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