6 Feb
2009
6 Feb
'09
6:24 p.m.
2009/2/6 Wolfgang Jeltsch
So using TeX as a general language for math is a very bad idea, in my opinion. The problem is that there is no good language which provides enough structural information for conversion into MathML and is at the same time simple to write and read. Maybe, both requirements contradict.
ASCIIMathML [1] is designed to do this. It doesn't cover everything in Presentation MathML, and makes no attempt to handle Content MathML, but you can do quite a lot with it. The notation has a formally defined grammar and rules for conversion to MathML [2]. [1] http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/asciimath.html [2] http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/mathml/asciimathsyntax.html Andy