WebMath: math text on the web

[Debbie Kell]

What about supporting the students in writing math for the web?   How about
that dialogue between student and teacher?  E-mail, chat rooms, bulletin
boards?   Some of these approaches involve skills and products that I'm not
sure the students could manage.  I'd love to hear what folks have used to
facilitate student interaction?

David K Smith wrote:

> Like  James Denholm-Price, I have used LaTeX and posted material in PDF
> format.  My approach has been via the free MikTeX suite of programs, which
> include PDFTeX and PDFLaTeX in the complete distribution.  So there is only
> one stage to go through, rather than James' converting LaTeX ->
> PostScript -> PDF with GhostScript.
> the only disadvantage that I have found so far is with the use of \special
> commands, which are unpredictable.  The one which I use most often involves
> piktex, where a postscript special exists to convert straight line \plots
> into postscript plots.  With PDFTeX, this doesn't work, so plotted straight
> lines can use a lot of memory!
>
> Just my two pennies/cents worth
> David S
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