[IPOL discuss] [Fwd: IPOL & MathJax]

[Juan Cardelino]

Hey all,
         Am I the only thinking about MathML? Can someone comment
about it? I have only a noise about it, but seems to be a reasonable
idea.
Regards,
            Juan

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Pascal Getreuer <getreuer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I agree with Pascal Monasse, we do not have an urgent need to improve
> the math formulas because what IPOL currently has is reasonably good.
> However, we should keep MathJax in mind for the future.  If (when)
> IPOL moves to a new edition system, we can consider adopting MathJax
> at the same time .
>
> Best,
> Pascal
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 09:32, Pascal Monasse <monasse at imagine.enpc.fr> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I do not think we really have a problem with math formulas, just limitations:
>> they do not look nice when scaled and are inadequate for inline equations.
>> Sure, mathjax looks nice, but it depends on javascript support in the browser.
>> Up to now we have resisted to javascript dependency with reasonable success,
>> which is a very good thing in my opinion. Mathjax advantages do not seem
>> sufficient to justify changing that.
>> Best,
>> Pascal
>>
>> On Monday, March 21, 2011 02:29:32 pm Jean-Michel Morel wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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