The document discusses authoring and publishing math online. It introduces MathML as a standard for describing mathematical expressions in a machine-readable way. It also discusses ASCIIMath, a simpler text-based notation for math that converts to MathML, and MathJax, an open-source JavaScript library that displays math across browsers using MathML or image formats. The FullMarks project rewrote TinyMCE plugins to allow entering math as ASCIIMath and storing it as MathML for cross-browser rendering via MathJax.

1. Authoring and Publishing Math in Plone & FullMarks

3. Write some Latex, print it out, take a photo and upload it. Hard core!

4. Write some Latex convert it to an SVG image and upload it. Wow you can do that!

5. Can you see the problem with all of these approaches?

6. No collaboration on the web

7. MathML to the rescue!

9. MathML Version 1.0 published in 1998

10. XML for describing Math

11. MathML deals not only with presentation (Presentation MathML) but also the semantic meaning of an equation (Content MathML).

14. All that markup for such a simple formula! No way give me my pencil, paper and camera.

15. Where MathML is too hard for human consumption WYSYWIG editors and text markup can help

16. ASCIIMath is simple text-based notation for math that is translated to MathML using Javascript. It was developed by Peter Jipsen from Chapman University in California.

18. Transforms to Presentation MathML

19. One single javascript library: <script src=”ASCIIMathML.js” type=”text/javascript”/>

21. sum_(i=1)^n i^3=((n(n+1))/2)^2

22. e^(i pi)=-1

23. AA x in CC (sin^2x+cos^2x=1)

24. sqrt(x y)

25. Try them out here: http://mathcs.chapman.edu/~jipsen/mathml/asciimathdemo.html

26. Only one problem. After 12 frickin years MathML is still only supported by Firefox.

27. “MathJax is an open source JavaScript display engine for mathematics that works in all modern browsers. No more setup for readers. No more browser plugins. No more font installations… It just works.” http://mathjax.org

29. For FullMarks, we rewrote these plugins to store and render MathML.

30. All MathML is converted by MathJax for cross-browser display.

31. Function graphs are rendered as SVG since this is not currently supported by the MathML standard. Browser support for SVG is much better than MathML.

33. ASCIIMath.js: http://mathcs.chapman.edu/~jipsen/mathml/asciimath.html

34. MathJax: http://www.mathjax.org/

35. FullMarks TinyMCE Plugins: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fullmarks.tinymceplugins.asciimath http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fullmarks.tinymceplugins.asciimath

36. Source for plugins: http://github.com/fullmarks