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Workshop
Published on March 5, 2014.
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This is a report about the workshop about computational tools that I help to organize for the lab where I work. If you like to watch the recorded of the workshop (only available in portuguese) you will find the links here.
I was hoping to have around 20 students (and possibly a waiting list) but had only 14 subscriptions and 12 of those show up.
More ...Presentations from Design Science
Published on February 20, 2014.
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Design Science is a company that develop some products using MathML. They make some presentations available at http://www.dessci.com/en/company/events.htm and I want to talk a little about some of them.
A MathML Progress Report
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Presentation__ and local copy <MathMLProgressReport.pdf>.
I hope to see line wrapping, line breaking and elementary math implemented soon.
More ...Why MathML
Published on February 16, 2014.
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Update
I suggest that you read the article wrote by MPT back in 1999 in response this questions.
MathML "is a low-level specification for describing mathematics as a basis for machine to machine communication which provides a much needed foundation for the inclusion of mathematical expressions in Web pages" designed by W3C and now part of HTML(5) and EPUB(3). Unfortunately, support MathML wasn't a priority for the big players that drive the Web and some times the question "Why not deprecate MathML?" raised.
More ...3rd mathml meeting
Published on February 14, 2014.
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This is a report about the 3rd Mozilla MathML IRC Meeting (see the announcement here). The topics of the meeting can be found in this PAD (local copy of the PAD <pad.txt>) and the IRC log (local copy of the IRC log <irc.txt>).
The next meeting will be in March 13th 9PM UTC at #mathml IRC channel. Please add topics in the PAD.
More ...TeXZilla at AMO
Published on January 28, 2014.
Note: This post was update in January 29th base on Frédéric’s comments.
TeXZilla is the name of one (La)TeX to MathML parser write in Javascript and the name of one Mozilla Add-ons that use the Javascript parse. Both was written by Frédéric Wang and are under Mozilla Public License.
In this post I will review the Add-ons.
Install
Install the Add-ons is very easy, just go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/texzilla/ and click in “Add to Firefox”.
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