On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:23:20 +0200
Jacek Generowicz
Greetings Cafe,
What would you recommend as a Haskell-based means of interactively reading and writing mathematical formulae?
As a toy example, what might I use to write a program which presents the user with
Please simplify the expression: \pi x^2 + 3\pi x^2
(Where the TeX-style expression would be presented with a greek pi and superscript twos on the xs.)
The user should then have the ability to reply with something that looks like the result of TeXing
5 \pi x^2
Whatever means the user uses to enter this expression, he should be able to preview the "typeset" version of his input before submitting.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Regarding the rendering math formulas on web browsers: you might want to have a look at MathJax (http://www.mathjax.org/). You can use LaTeX or MathML and will work in most browsers (even if when they don't natively support MathML). Pedro