On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:38:38AM -0400, Mark Esplin wrote: > My dream of the future would would be that all software that displays or > uses mathematical equations would support a common interchange format like > MathML at the clipboard level. That way we could cut and past equations from > any application to any other application. MathML is an XML based description > language (See http://www.w3.org/Math/). However, I am not sure that even > MathML has enough information to actually describe the math of the equation > and not just how it appears on the screen. > > -Mark Esplin It has, for most of it. There are two flavors, presentational and content-based. Think of presentational as latex-like and the content-based as algebraic manipulator like.
But since this isn't a perfect world, you will not fulfill your dream so soon, but not as late as you are afraid. ;-) -- Jos�
