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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: mathTeX to display math in html pages?
From:       Murray Eisenberg <murray () math ! umass ! edu>
Date:       2009-07-30 16:38:43
Message-ID: 4A71CC93.1070106 () math ! umass ! edu
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I just reread the information on the mathtex page. You are correct; I 
was mistaken. I was confusing mathtex with jsMath.

rgheck wrote:
> On 07/29/2009 03:35 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>> I thought that if one has the appropriate fonts installed on the 
>> client, then a page rendered by the server with mathtex will display 
>> in the client browser using those fonts -- and NOT by creating images.
>>
> If you can point me to such info, then I'd be happy to look at it. But 
> perhaps you are confusing mathtex with mathml?
> 
> rh
> 
>> Richard Heck wrote:
>>> On 07/29/2009 07:19 AM, Rudi Gaelzer wrote:
>>>> Just out of curiosity...
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know if the current html converter that LyX uses 
>>>> (htlatex) makes use
>>>> or the developers plan to use the new mathTeX system
>>>> (http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html)
>>>> that embeds LaTeX math in html pages?
>>>>
>>>> The output seems more beautiful and useful than the present method 
>>>> of handling
>>>> equations, converting them to png files... (at least this is what 
>>>> htlatex does
>>>> for me...)
>>>>
>>> I am currently working on implementing native HTML output for the 
>>> next version of LyX (1.7, we now think). In the short term, we will 
>>> probably do pngs, too.
>>>
>>> The problem with mathtex, from my point of view, is that it is 
>>> insufficiently general. In order to use mathtex, it has to be 
>>> installed on the server. And in many ways, it isn't much better as a 
>>> solution, since all mathtex does is make little images out of latex 
>>> that is embedded in the src attribute of the image tag.
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>
> 

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