[ANN] Ritex 0.2 released: Latex -> MathML converter

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William Morgan wrote:

It's been almost four years since the last release, but I dusted off
the ol' codebase, fixed some bugs, added some features, and voila,
a new release.

Ritex turns "WebTeX" (essentially LaTeX math) into MathML. You can see
it in action here: http://all-thing.net/label/stats/

Is it supposed to look like this?

   dd2E+2=02E+2=0=E

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Reformatted excerpts from Joel VanderWerf's message of 2009-04-02:

Is it supposed to look like this?

   dd2E+2=02E+2=0=E

Nope. The magic of MathML is that, 10 years later, it's still a fight to
get browsers to display it.

Are you using Safari? Webkit doesn't have Mathml support.

Can you see the examples on Presentation Examples?

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William <wmorgan-ruby-talk@masanjin.net>

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William Morgan wrote:

Reformatted excerpts from Joel VanderWerf's message of 2009-04-02:

Is it supposed to look like this?

   dd2E+2=02E+2=0=E

Nope. The magic of MathML is that, 10 years later, it's still a fight to
get browsers to display it.

Are you using Safari? Webkit doesn't have Mathml support.

Can you see the examples on Presentation Examples?

Ah, I was using Konqueror (so probably same as Safari or any Webkit-based browser).

In firefox, the equations do display nicely.

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       vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407

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Reformatted excerpts from Joel VanderWerf's message of 2009-04-02:

Ah, I was using Konqueror (so probably same as Safari or any
Webkit-based browser).

In firefox, the equations do display nicely.

This is presumably why sites like Wikipedia, which actually care about
disseminating information and are not just futile platforms for shouting
into the void in a frantic attempt to mask the horrifying lack of
meaning to a lonely existence, generate images instead of using MathML.

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William <wmorgan-ruby-talk@masanjin.net>

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William Morgan wrote:

Reformatted excerpts from Joel VanderWerf's message of 2009-04-02:

Ah, I was using Konqueror (so probably same as Safari or any
Webkit-based browser).

In firefox, the equations do display nicely.

This is presumably why sites like Wikipedia, which actually care about
disseminating information and are not just futile platforms for shouting
into the void in a frantic attempt to mask the horrifying lack of
meaning to a lonely existence, generate images instead of using MathML.

Webby does this too.

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       vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407