Re: [Texmacs-dev] HTML, XML, XSLT (was: texmacs installation problem)

[Álvaro Tejero Cantero]

On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 15:05, Felix Breuer wrote:
> > My question is if math is being considered in the whole discussion, or
> > only the most basic HTML structure, so that the website (which is simple
> > in structure) can  be exported from TeXmacs. Would XSLT be able to
> > generate a reasonable representation for math? (note that alqua.com
> > pages use the mathematical features of HTML 3.2, not images. Hevea or
> > TTH prefer this approach, while LaTeX2html uses raster formats for the
> > formulas).
> 
> What is a resonable representation of math in HTML? Using rasterized
> image for every equation bloats the page (in terms of KB) and
> prerendered images may not fit well to the surrounding text (the "let"
> in "let n=2" might have a different font size than the "n=2", etc.).
> However, neither HTML math nor MathML are properly supported by current
> browsers yet. 

I agree.


I had a look at your page and Mozilla 1.1 does not render
> integral signs or decorated variables properly, even though it can cope
> with sub- and superscripts. Mozilla handels MathML a bit better [1] but
> I do not think IE does (natively at least, there is a plugin [2]
> though). So, widespread math support in HTML is still a long way of.

But note that you can activate symbol font support in Mozilla and NS,
following the instructions at


http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/Xfonts.html (Enabling Symbol Fonts
in Browsers under X )


Regards, álvaro.

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