Re: mathematical expressions and markup

I thought there was a special mathematical markup language - mml or
something for doing things like that. I think HTML has enough Greek letters
though both in capitals and lower case. But doing square roots across
formulae in HTML would be difficult. You could do it using layers but I am
always advised to steer clear of layers.
I'd say go for gifs. There may even be a shareware program to help you do it
faster.
Have a look at www.download.com
HTH

Ben Bradley UK
Creative Director
http://www.thenetzone.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: Jennifer C. Swartz <eandscon(at)javanet.com>
To: <ErthWlkr(at)aol.com>; <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 10:22 AM
Subject: RE: mathematical expressions and markup


> Actually that was the question.  What is the best way to do it...  I have
> just started this job about 7 months ago and I had not set up this page
> before.  I am in the process of redesigning the site and wanted to know
what
> the best way was to markup mathematical expressions.  You answered my
> question!  :)  Thank you.
>
> Jennifer C. Swartz
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ErthWlkr(at)aol.com [mailto:ErthWlkr(at)aol.com]
> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 10:19 PM
> To: eandscon(at)javanet.com; hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org
> Subject: Re: mathematical expressions and markup
>
>
> Hello Jennifer:
>
> You wrote:
>
> > For now, however, I am wondering if there is a
> >  better way of writing mathematical expressions or, should I just leave
> them
> >  as gifs and ad title and alt tags to each image tag?
>
> As a beginning student of HTML - the question intrigued me enough to visit
> some math related sites on the net.  (Ironically, the web was originally
> created as a method of sharing research rather than turning it into a
> shopping mall. :-) )
>
> Many of the sites presented their formulae as gifs, although some went
> through the painstaking effort of writing HTML for "simple" calculations
> involving superior and inferior numbers, etc. (no special symbols).
>
> I'm curious - if you're using a familiar word processor to do this,
> converting them into gifs, and placing them into your pages, why do you
want
> to change the process? Is this too cumbersome?  Seems to be a simple and
> commonly used solution...
>
> - Jeff Kopito
>

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