Presentations from Design Science

Published on February 20, 2014.

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

I hope to see line wrapping, line breaking and elementary math implemented soon.

Why MathML

Published on February 16, 2014.

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.

3rd mathml meeting

Published on February 14, 2014.

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.

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”.

LaTeXML

Published on January 24, 2014.

LaTeXML is a comprehensive LaTeX to XML converter written by Bruce Miller for the DLMF project at NIST and it’s source code can be found at GitHub.

In this post I will show how to install and use it.

Install

First of all download the source code:

$ git git clone https://github.com/brucemiller/LaTeXML.git
$ git remote add kwarc https://github.com/KWARC/LaTeXML.git
$ git fetch --all
$ git checkout kwarc/master