outline:
1-----free and multi-platform HTML editors
2-----Rich text/html editors inside blogger, Gmail, Knol, wordpress.com, webmail...
3-----Web-based word processor
4---- Two commercial applications & free equation editors
5-----Browsers and MATHML viewers
6-----Free javascript library for math on web pages: JavaScript display engine for mathematics that works in all browsers.
7-----Some interesting links
8-----Inserting Characters (unicode, Math Font Styles)
How to post mathematics or web applications with mathematica and matlab, see :
http://ex-ample.blogspot.com/2011/06/web20-services-mathematica-and-matlab.html
How to post mathematics in wikipedia or in MediaWiki? , see:
http://ex-ample.blogspot.com/2011/07/mediawiki-api.html
An "ex-ample" : the online NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions {Abramowitz and Stegun’s (1964) Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables}.
http://ex-ample.blogspot.com/2011/07/best-ex-ample-nist-digital-library-of.html
read this article (@1999, updated 2002) :
Approaches to WWW Mathematics Documents
http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/webmath.html
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preface:
ex-ample1 (mathML3): http://ex-ample.blogspot.com/2011/07/mathml3-sample.html
(this example comes from
https://eyeasme.com/Joe/MathML/HTML5_MathML_browser_test.html
but this URL does not work with Chrome 14+STIX font+MathJax but works with firefox; MathML code without return must be included in HTML code of a post).
ex-ample2 (mathML2): http://www.w3.org/Math/testsuite/mml2-testsuite/TortureTests/Complexity/complex1.xml
ex-ample3: this blog (left sidebar and matML latex labels):
http://ex-ample.blogspot.com/2011/07/symbols-tex-1.html
Math ML(Mathematical Markup Language) is an XML language designed to present complex equations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML
http://www.w3.org/Math/
http://www.personal.psu.edu/ejp10/blogs/tlt/tutorials/mathml.html
Wikipedia uses LaTeX (and limited MathML).
MS Office 2007 and OpenOffice.org (via OpenOffice.org Math:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Math), as well as mathematical software products such as Mathematica supports MathML.
Knol use LaTeX:
http://knol.google.com/k/stef42-ex-ample-blogger-com/mathematics-and-web-html5-latex-mathml/2fdyfc9mft4ir/1?hd=ns#
MathML 3.0 was officially released as a W3C Recommendation (@Oct 2010). It is backward compatible with MathML 2.
MathML deals not only with the presentation but also the meaning of formula components (the latter part of MathML is known as “Content MathML”). Because the meaning of the equation is preserved separate from the presentation, how the content is communicated can be left up to the user.
If you work in science you probably know
LaTeX. LaTeX is gorgeous; enabling scientific authoring in an unrivaled way. Nevertheless, LaTeX is somewhat outdated. It doesn't support the clear separation between content and style that modern standards imply. Editing complex equations can become a tedious job. An alternative might be the combination of DocBook with MathML.
DocBook is an XML language (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook). It's a semantic markup language for technical documentation (
http://www.docbook.org/tdg/). It was originally intended for writing technical documents related to computer hardware and software but it can be used for any other sort of documentation.
As a semantic language, a DocBook document does not describe what their contents "look like," but rather the meaning of those contents. For example, rather than explaining how the abstract for an article might be visually formatted, DocBook simply says that a particular section is an abstract. It is up to an external processing tool or application to decide where on a page the abstract should go and what it should look like. And, indeed, to decide whether or not it should be included in the final output at all. It provides a vast number of semantic element tags. They are divided into three broad categories: structural, block-level, and inline. Because DocBook is an XML format, conforming to a well-defined schema, documents can be validated and processed using any tool or programming language which includes XML support.
The current version is DocBook, 5.0.DocBook 4.x documents are not compatible with DocBook 5, but they can be converted into DocBook 5 documents through the use of an XSLT stylesheet.
Source:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/
A group of XSLT stylesheets for transforming DocBook into various viewable formats:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook_XSL
This post is focused on "how to publish mathematics" not on "document languages", beyond of the scope. And then we focused on these languages :
- "your screen image": browser rendering engine and javascript rendering engine (in this blog the javascript library MathJax),
- HTML, HTML5, CSS... (quality of the code source of the page)
- MathML (quality of the code source of the page),
- laTeX (quality of the code source of the page).
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MathML is too verbose to edit using a text editor then we need a MathML editor.
Comparison of HTML editor (stand alone);
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTML_editors
List of math editors:
http://www.w3.org/Math/Software/mathml_software_cat_editors.html
Comparison of open source and commercial WYSIWYG web-based editors (by replacing a textarea or by adding their own editable block):
http://geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/WebEditors).
Some packages and Mathematics environments (also some corrections of bad rendering):
If your document requires only a few simple mathematical formulas, LaTeX has most of the tools that you will need. If you are writing a scientific document that contains numerous complicated formulas, the amsmath package introduces several new commands that are more powerful and flexible than the ones provided by LaTeX. The mathtools package fixes some amsmath quirks and adds some useful settings, symbols, and environments to amsmath.
