[IPOL discuss] [Fwd: IPOL & MathJax]

[Jean-Michel Morel]

Dear all,

I have received the message below and would like to have your opinion: 
it is true that we have a problem with math formulas in IPOL articles: 
is Mathjax a solution?

Best,
Jean-Michel


-------- Message original --------
Sujet : IPOL & MathJax
Date : Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:15:41 +0100
De : Hylke Koers <hylkek at mathjax.org>
Pour : edit at ipol.im

Dear Jean-Michel,

It is my pleasure to meet you virtually. My name is Hylke Koers and I am 
working on MathJax, a new open source software technology that displays 
mathematics on all modern web browsers and mobile devices.

I have been browsing the IPOL website, and it's exciting to see how you 
are combining traditional scholarly publication with online code 
repositories, examples and demos. I noticed that you are displaying 
mathematical equations as images, and I would like to draw your 
attention to MathJax, a dynamical math display engine that provides some 
important advantages over equation images. A major advantage for online 
scientific publishers is that the math looks good on all modern 
browsers, even on smartphones and tablets, and at all levels of zoom.

Who in your organization would be the best person to talk to about 
online mathematics? We would be very interested in hearing about your 
needs to learn how we can make MathJax work best for innovative 
initiatives such as IPOL.

The MathJax project was initiated in 2009 by Design Science, the 
American Mathematical Society (AMS) and the Society for Industrial and 
Applied Mathematics (SIAM) to develop a universal, robust, and 
easy-to-use solution for online math display. Besides making math look 
good across viewing devices (without the need for readers to install 
anything), MathJax allows your readers to copy math to the clipboard so 
they can work with it in calculation applications. It also provides math 
accessibility allowing the equations to be understood by blind, poor 
vision, dyslexic, and learning-disabled readers. MathJax is the new 
standard for quality display mathematics in HTML, and is already in use 
by leading publishers such as MathSciNet, The Optical Society, Project 
Euclid, and Connexions.org.

I hope that you will take a closer look at MathJax on www.mathjax.org, 
and I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.

With my best regards,

Hylke Koers


Dr. Hylke Koers
MathJax Business Development Manager
www.mathjax.org
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=4508306