Re: SUO: Re: Web-based ontology browsers
Some comments:
> Why don't we use MathML ?
> http://www.w3.org/Math/
MathML uses exactly the same symbols as HTML and XML. If the fonts
are not available for the browser, they aren't available for MathML.
For my writing, which is mostly logicical formulas and mathematical
equations, straight HTML with superscripts, subscripts, italics,
and the SGML/HTML/XML symbols is quite sufficient.
The special features of MathML are important for writing complex
fractions, where both the numerator and the denominator are themselves
expressions that contain complex fractions. Since division is not an
operator that I use very often, I have no need for the special features
of MathML.
And by the way, I strongly urge everyone to move toward XML (or HTML
as an intermediate stage on the way to XML). Even Microsoft has agreed
that XML is the way to go, and they are moving to XML instead of .doc
or RTF as the internal format for the next version of MS Office.
And Star Office has already adopted XML as their primary internal
format for all files (word processor, spreadsheet, etc.). They are
currently in beta format, but you can get the new versions from
OpenOffice (see http://www.openoffice.org/ ).
For LateX fans, I recommend DocBook, which is the processor that
O'Reilly uses for all their animal books. It also uses XML as the
basic representation, and it generates output in LaTeX, HTML, and
many other formats (see http://www.docbook.org/ ).
John Sowa