It is now (apparently!) possible to include arbitrary LaTeX equations in any web service: blogs, wikis, plain html, and even mime-email.
The stunt is to build an image tag in html which includes the LaTeX to be rendered: http://www.mayer.dial.pipex.com/tex.htm http://sixthform.info/steve/wordpress/ An example given in the above is: <img src="http://www.forkosh.dreamhost.com/mathtex.cgi?c= \sqrt{a^2+b^2}" /> which renders a LaTeX image inline. The good news is that it works anywhere an <img> tag can be used. The bad news is that it is a "dead" image. But again, the good news is the "LaTeX markup" is still available in the markup too (in the <img> tag), thus can be used by other users via grabbing the original source and pasting into other documents. Not MathML yet, but seems a reasonable solution. Clearly TeX-math is becoming a web standard. -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
