Re: [FRIAM] Ho, Hum. Another Day, Another Blog Post Critical of Google

[Marcus G. Daniels]

On 2/1/13 7:25 PM, Russell Standish wrote:
Not convinced that HTML added anything useful ... Being able to 
typeset maths in email _would_ be useful, but so far HTML has 
completely failed at that problem. In the meantime, LaTeX encoding has 
grown to fill the void...
Hmm, sounds like a `cultural problem'...
{ { x ? "\[Rule]" - 3 } , { x ? "\[Rule]" 3 } }

Above, in Mathematica, I ran:

ExportString[Solve[x^2 - 3 == 0,x],"MathML"]

You'll get a bunch of MathML:

<math xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'>
      <mrow>
       <mo>{</mo>
       <mrow>
        <mrow>
         <mo>{</mo>
         <mrow>
          <mi>x</mi>
          <semantics>
           <mo>&#8594;</mo>
           <annotation 
encoding='Mathematica'>&quot;\[Rule]&quot;</annotation>
          </semantics>
          <mrow>
           <mo>-</mo>
           <msqrt>
            <mn>3</mn>
           </msqrt>
          </mrow>
         </mrow>
         <mo>}</mo>
        </mrow>
        <mo>,</mo>
        <mrow>
         <mo>{</mo>
         <mrow>
          <mi>x</mi>
          <semantics>
           <mo>&#8594;</mo>
           <annotation 
encoding='Mathematica'>&quot;\[Rule]&quot;</annotation>
          </semantics>
          <msqrt>
           <mn>3</mn>
          </msqrt>
         </mrow>
         <mo>}</mo>
        </mrow>
       </mrow>
       <mo>}</mo>
      </mrow>
     </math>

Now go into Thunderbird, and run Insert/HTML.   Cut and paste the above in.

Marcus
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