4th MathML Meeting

Published on March 13, 2014.

This is a report about the 4th 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>) is also available.

In the last 4 weeks the MathML team closed 6 bugs, worked in others 5 and open 4 new ones (this are only the ones tracked by Bugzilla, there are others issues related with MathML that the team worked on, like Frédéric's Mathematics in ebooks).

Firefox OS Math Virtual Keyboard Project

Published on March 7, 2014.

This is a little long description of my Math virtual keyboard proposal for GSOC.

To try explain why I believe that Firefox OS need a math virtual keyboard it's important that you know how math expressions can be virtually stored.

Plain text world

In the first years of the digital ages, when only a few can use a computer, the only way to store information was in plain text files or binaries.

Workshop

Published on March 5, 2014.

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.

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.