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If you want to publish equations to MathML?

1. Microsoft Word 2007 with the Insert Equation feature, does a fantastic job, of supporting, storing, writing, keeping, and printing Equations with MathType.
2. Next, yes, my hard core MathML pages on here, require the MathPlayer from Design Science.
3. Save MathML from Maple or Mathematica - forget it! Publish Math in MS Word without MathType - forget it. Too many Apps dump as invisible data in GIF graphics.
4. The whole purpose of why the W3C created the MathML standard was?

The whole story in my MathType article.

Glen

MathML - the Quest !!!

b crowell really nails it here. Ben's Home Page

• The majority of users, who have IE with no plugin, should see some kind of graceful degradation.
• Firefox users should see the math displayed correctly.
• The tiny minority of users who have MathPlayer+IE should see the math displayed correctly.

Unfortunately, you just can't accomplish this by any reasonable technique. The technique I've ended up using for the web browser version of my own physics textbooks is to use mod_rewrite to serve mathml to Firefox 3+ users, and serve a version with bitmapped renderings of the equations to everyone else.

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More to follow in next Post.

Glen