Aloha, Why not use the alt="" tag for a given rendered image? That is what works on the MimeTeX installations, see e.g., http://garden9.com/wiki/user-talk:jeffmcneill
-- Sincerely, Jeff McNeill http://jeffmcneill.com/ On 10/26/07, Paul Topping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What you suggest is close to what I'm looking for but lacks declaration > of the kind of data the image/linked data bundle represents. Software > working with the page would have to fetch the linked-to MathML or TeX > and examine it to know it was an equation. As I understand it, what a > microformat does is more than just hold the data, it declares a > datatype. > > Also, I want to put the MathML or TeX in the page, not in separate > documents. Typical pages with math in them might have dozens of > equations. Having their representation in separate files is inefficient > but perhaps the biggest problem is that it makes authoring a lot more > tedious as lots of small files have to be managed. > > Paul Topping > Design Science, Inc. > www.dessci.com > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:microformats- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher St John > > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 7:34 AM > > To: For discussion of new microformats. > > Subject: Re: [uf-new] an equation/MathML/TeX microformat? > > > > On 10/26/07, Paul Topping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The problem has nothing to do with improving display. As I said, > that > > > will be via an image such as a GIF or PNG. The microformat is solely > > for > > > the purpose of associating a MathML or TeX representation with the > > > image. As with other microformats, normal HTML content is what the > > user > > > sees while software sees structured, useful data. > > > > > > > To restate the hopefully obvious, just in case: > > > > You just want to say "this png image of an equation you're looking at > > is associated with the (MathML | TeX | Etc) ( at the end of this link > | > > embedded > > here in the document)" > > > > How would you do it now, without microformats? Something along the > > lines of: > > > > <a href="some_mathml.xml"><img src="some_math.png"></a> > > > > with maybe a "class" or "rel" or something in there to tie them > together > > a bit tighter? > > > > Would "the rendering fallback for this MathML is this png image" get > you > > the same effect? In which case you're maybe looking at the standard > > <object> tag mechanism, but that gets you some (hopefully fading) > > issues on certain browsers. But do the semantics of <object> fallbacks > > match what you want to do? > > > > Have you read through the existing microformats in detail checking to > > see how similiar sorts of problems have been solved before? Not sure > if > > there's anything exactly applicable, but it's probably worth a shot. > > > > -cks > > > > -- > > Christopher St. John > > http://artofsystems.blogspot.com > > _______________________________________________ > > microformats-new mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-new mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new > _______________________________________________ microformats-new mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-new
