On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 01:16:07PM -0500, Bill Page wrote: <sn? How advanced are the graphical > rendering packages? (More open source?) Could MATH/ML > be integrated with a tool like Leo? The alternative > of a LaTex-like interface is already available in > TeXmacs. But the use of XML as a standard visible > "internal" representation format strikes me as very > very desirable. And of course by design MATH/ML is > much more compatible with XML than is LaTex encoding.. In addition you have access to tools based on XSLT etc. There is no reason why you cannot use XSLT to render MathML - and indeed there is a SourceForge project to do just that (). As far as rendering goes, Mozilla based its MathML rendering on TeX and is really quite good. The same code also found its way into Netscape 7. There are also various plugins available for IE, you can find my colleague David Carlisle's "universal stylesheet" at the MathML home page () which allows you to produce documents which are portable across several browsers. By the way David is bot only a member of the MathMl committee but also one of the authors of LaTeX2e so we aren't biased! Having said all that you need to be careful when using MathML for content markup - the defined symbols are fairly trivial (US high-school maths) and you need to use one of the extension mechanisms such as csymbol to extend the namespace for more interesting things. You can use OpenMath () for this, i.e. make the definitionURL attribute point to an appropriate OpenMath Content Dictionary, or do what Maple and Mathematica do and use system-specific URIs. Regards, Mike. _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.