Math in Webpages, Part Deux

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I was browsing a mechanics (as in engineering, not cars) website today and ran across a couple interesting links.

I found a source for a cgi that can be installed on any web server that lets the user write TeX expressions in HTML and have them rendered on the fly as images by a cgi processor. John Forkosh has developed two programs MathTeX (if LaTeX is installed on the server, math is rendered in higher quality) and MimeTeX (for all other servers).

And I found an article by published in March 2009 that sums up the state of Math on the web–basically the same conclusions I came to after an hour or so of poking around in May.

“The truth is, the basic protocols of the Web offer almost no support for rendering mathematics or other specialized notations such as chemical formulas. Presenting such material on a Web page often requires software add-ons or plug-ins to be installed by the author or the reader or both.”

Source: Hayes, B. (2009, March). Writing Math on the Web. Retrieved June 16, 2009 from American Scientist Web site: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2009/3/writing-math-on-the-web/1

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