On 27 Mar 2000 21:42:13 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James
Kilfiger) wrote:
>Kristen Lanum wrote:
>>Hello! We are trying to render the symbols for Xbar and square root in
>>a statistics manual, which will primarily be used by staff using
>>Internet Explorer 5. Is there any way to render these symbols for the
>>web other than making them into graphics?
>
>Graphics are surely the best way to go. There are (no doubt) fonts with
>these characters, but maths typesetting is more than just having the
>fonts. If you ever need to do anything more complex than an x-bar (and
>I've seen some of the integrals you stats guys do) you will need a
>proper maths typesetting engine. Write in latex and convert to html
>(tex4ht, latex2html etc). You can prettify the html afterwards.
Looking down the road a bit, I am reading a lot about XML, and one of
its flavors, MathML.
Does anyone have any knowledge of how you can tell when a new web
standard is actually going to become standard? Well, you can't know
the future, I guess I mean how to formulate a reasonable guess? Are
there existing products out there, even in beta test, which have some
sort of support for XML for instance?
- Randy
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