WebMath: math text on the web

[James White]

	At the Mathwright Library, we place mathematical content: displayed
formulas, text, pictures, matrices, etc. into our Math Edit Fields.  We use,
of course, a Proprietary format which only the Mathwright Library Player can
use, and so it is not useful for generic web content.   Still, the Player is
freeware, easily deliverable to all readers, and as Alan Cooper has
mentioned, we plan to make the Author program (in which these documents are
created) compatible with the free player.  So authors may easily create
mathematical content for their students and embed that content in hypertext
pages with illustrations, screen snapshots, and Interactive (modifiable)
mathematical expressions, descriptive text, and matrices by this means.

	The new version of the Author Program will be announced in our upcoming
newsletter.  If you are interested in learning more, please visit us at
www.mathwright.com  and Register for our Newsletter.

																	Jim White

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-webmath at camel.math.ca [mailto:owner-webmath at camel.math.ca]On
Behalf Of June Lester
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 7:54 PM
To: webmath at camel.math.ca
Subject: WebMath: math text on the web

I've been looking at currently existing methods for putting mathematical
text up on the web, partly for an online calculus course I'm designing, and
partly for a survey talk I'll be giving in a few weeks.  I've looked at
several methods, but none seems to be robust and flexible enough for
extended use without a great deal of fiddling and hassles.  I realize that
we will soon(?) have browsers that support MathML (we have the editors
already), but I need to know what works *now*, if somewhat imperfectly.

If you have put up mathematics text on the web in any form, I would
appreciate knowing
        a) how you did it (GIFs? applets? . . .)
        b) the URL for it, if it's public
        c) your opinions on the feasibility of doing it this way.

Please reply to the list if you think your answer would be of general
interest. (Experience-based warnings of the form "don't do it this way" are
almost certainly of general interest :o) )
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