>Greg Gamble wrote:
>> > ....... Could whoever did the fine work on implementing the `eqnarray*'
>> > and `eqnarray' translation by l2h, please adapt these to the `amsmath'
>> > environments: `align', `align*', `gather', `gather*'.
>>
>According to Ross Moore:
>> All of this is my work.
>> Each of the amsmath environments are supposed to be implemented
>>similarly...
>> ... provided you use switches: -no_math -html_version 3.2,math
>>
>> Are you trying to use 'amsmath' without these switches ?
>> That probably gives you an image then, I'd expect.
>
>Indeed ... I had not realised that I should set these switches, and
>yes ... setting these switches causes L2H to translate `align', `align*',
>`gather',
>`gather*' beautifully ...
and Bruce Miller wrote:
>On May 26, 5:23pm, Ross Moore wrote:
>> The point is that if you are using amsmath then you should be using
>> the high-powered math-parsing offered by the `math' extension.
>> The smaller images that it generates give better down-load times.
>> Also, the HTML markup better reflects the logical content
>> of the mathematics, much more so than does a single large image.
>> Searching on sub-expressions becomes possible.
>
>[Can I take up a (hopefully) polite quibble here?]
>
>I think your goals are noble, but you're way ahead of the curve!
>Both the presentation and content should be preserved once MathML is online,
>but I can't see the current HTML/image soup being any more logical or
>searchable than the image is (that is, not at all!).
>The mixture of fontfaces, sizes & weights that you get from mixing <i>, <sup>
>and <img> is at best ugly, and at worst confusing (are those "x"'s supposed to
>be the same?) And I've seen at least one browser pushed beyond it's engine by
>the complicated markup.
OK, for the next release you'll be able to load the math-parsing
from versions/math.pl but only use it in a limited sense
by setting a variable $NO_MATH_PARSING = 1;
or using a switch -no_math_parsing .
This *new* mode effectively extends to the AMS aligned environments,
the style of maths that one gets with simply: latex2html -no_math
i.e. images of whole inline-environments and individual cells within
the alignments.
It's actually a bit more than this since some alignments are used
as sub-environments of others,
and one wants to not use images inside \text .
For a sample of this with AMS math-packages, browse the pages at:
http://www-texdev.mpce.mq.edu.au/l2h/mathdocs/ams_noparse/
and compare with
http://www-texdev.mpce.mq.edu.au/l2h/mathdocs/amsmath2/
which uses full parsing.
I'll set it up so that with \usepackage{amsmath} or \usepackage{amstex}
then the 'math' extension will be automatically loaded with
$NO_MATH_PARSING set
--- unless 'math' has already been loaded, using -html_version 3.2,math say.
This should keep everyone satisfied until support for MathML is ready.
Enjoy,
Ross Moore
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