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Hello All,<br>
<br>
I want to bring to your attention a newly designed, user-friendly
authoring system for
presentational mathematics on the Web, consisting of:<br>
<ol>
<li>An ASCII-based authoring language, called MathEL,
specifically designed for expressing mathematical formulas as a linear
string of symbols. <br>
Although being concise and - unlike [La]TeX - highly readable, MathEL
offers huge expressive power that is believed to cover even advanced
mathematical notation requirements.<br>
</li>
<li>A Java-based parser/code-generator that can translate the MathEL
language directly into MathML 2.0 <br>
</li>
<li>An online demonstration facility at <a
href="http://km-works.eu/mathel-interactive/">http://km-works.eu/mathel-interactive/</a>
you can use to test-drive MathEL's capabilities (please use Firefox!!!)<br>
</li>
<li>A mathematics-enabled wiki at <a
href="http://km-works.eu/mathel-wiki/">http://km-works.eu/mathel-wiki/</a><br>
</li>
<li>A set of tools that allow to translate MathEL expressions
embedded
in any XHTML file on the fly (web server or file system based).<br>
</li>
</ol>
MathEL features a concise, highly readable and hence easy-to-learn,
pure ASCII presentational mathematics authoring language that has been
designed to enable a technical author to integrate mathematicals into
any web site.<br>
<br>
The language and its supporting technology is extremly well balanced
and automatically scales from translating hundreds of tiny expressions
scattered across pages of text, to translating large and highly complex
formulas within milliseconds. With MathEL there is no need for
embedding generated math images into web pages and there is no need for
site preparation phases of any kind. All content is served efficiently
in real-time, and, even more important, all related computations are
exclusively done on the server. Your browser's job is simply to
aesthetically render MathML 2.0.<br>
<br>
>From an autor's perspective, MathEL presents itself as a user-friendly
authoring language that transparently translates into fully featured
MathML 2.0 which, in turn, serves as the sole web publishing frontend
language towards the users of mathematical web publications.<br>
<br>
Although MathEL is still work in progress, it has already stabilized
and will most likely be released later this year under the GNU General
Public License. <br>
<br>
All kind of thoughts
you might have about MathEL, criticism, concerns, encouragment,
enthusiasm, etc is all highly welcome, and in fact very much needed in
this phase of the project. <br>
<br>
You can always reach me at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:christian.lerch@km-works.eu">christian.lerch@km-works.eu</a><br>
<br>
Have a great day and thanks for your interest!<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Christian<br>
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