WebMath: math text on the web

[David Carlisle]

   I've primarily used Adobe PDF for distributing mathematical documents on the
   web, converting LaTeX -> PostScript -> PDF with GhostScript.

   This method is pretty easy, results in printable, hi-res. documents but the
   files are a bit bulky! Also, with Ghost only the default PostScript fonts
   are printed as fonts (Times etc.) -- all CM fonts etc. from LaTeX are
   vectors, take up more space & are slower to display. 

I gather recent (beta) versions ghostscript can now deal with type1
fonts. There are other free ways of getting from tex to pdf that don't
have this problem, eg using pdftex to make pdf directly, or using dvipdfm
to convert from dvi to pdf, or using pstill rather than gs to convert
from ps to pdf.


   I imagine Adobe's
   Acrobat software is a better wasy of generating PDF, perhaps working with
   Word & En Ed., but I much prefer LaTeX for mathematical notation!

You can also of course use acrobat distiller to convert latex/dvips
generated ps to pdf. (This is probably the best way if the document has
a lot of postscript figures.)

   I've also experimented with LaTeX2HTML (my notes are written mainly in
   LaTeX) and like it a lot, however my notes are designed to be printed rather
   than displayed & read online, so PDF is a better solution, thus far.

   Awaiting MathML! Have seen it demo'd in IE5 and it looks very promising for
   display purposes.

There is also a team working on adding mathml to the  `mozilla' open
source version of netscape, the results of their efforts are really
quite promising (see the mozilla-mathml at mozilla.org mailing list
or its associated mozilla newsgroup).

David
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