Mathematical HTML tags

[Ludwik Kowalski <KowalskiL@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU>]

In a footnote to his field-energy-density message Leigh Palmer wrote:

> *I would suggest a pdf file generated from Latex, but given that
> I got zero responses when I posted one last week I doubt that the
> mode is going to get popular. I can't think in ASCII, and I'm afraid
> the comments about even-integer-spin field mediators of interactions
> are wasted ...

Here is a relevant message from another list. It states that
Netscape 5.0, to be released this fall, will obey the HTML
tags for displaying traditional mathematical symbols.
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Hi,
The MathML team on the Mozilla project (e.g. the
open-source project that is working on the next version
of the Netscape browser) have made good progress.

They now have a screenshot and some information at:
http://people.netscape.com/endico/mathml.gif

and a newsgroup at

news://news.mozilla.org/netscape.public.mozilla.mathml

What is MathML? It's an XML (XML being a super-set of
HTML that enables you do develop your own tags for
describing a docment) DTD for math information.

What is MathML in Mozilla? MathML in Mozilla means that
when Netscape 5 ships (which should be this fall) we'll have
a standard for developing math information into Web pages,
something we don't have now. And since it's XML it should be
portable into IE 5 (though I don't know this for fact)

And what does this have to do with WebCT? Well one of the
common questions is how to teach math/science over the Web.
Well MathML is one big step in answering this question.

That's about all I know. I'm not a math whiz (heck I failed
freshman algebra in high school ;) so don't ask me about if it's
possible to do a particular problem. Instead direct your
questions to the mathML newsgroup. I'm just trying to
help get this information out to the WebCT community.

Mark