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Re: LaTeX in Pages

From richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject Re: LaTeX in Pages
Date 2020-07-20 21:08 +0000
Organization Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh
Message-ID <rf5146$1iaj$1@macpro.inf.ed.ac.uk> (permalink)
References <hnlf6eF2fc2U5@mid.individual.net> <1otv1d3.1w4clpliquyzbN@de-ster.xs4all.nl>

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In article <1otv1d3.1w4clpliquyzbN@de-ster.xs4all.nl>,
J. J. Lodder <jjlxa31@xs4all.nl> wrote:

><math>
> <mrow>
>  <mi>x</mi>
>  <mo>=</mo>
>  <mfrac>
>    <mrow>
>      <mrow>
>        <mo>-</mo>
>        <mi>b</mi>
>      </mrow>
>      <mo>&PlusMinus;</mo>
>      <msqrt>
>        <mrow>
>          <msup>
>            <mi>b</mi>
>            <mn>2</mn>
>          </msup>
>          <mo>-</mo>
>          <mrow>
>            <mn>4</mn>
>            <mo>&InvisibleTimes;</mo>
>            <mi>a</mi>
>            <mo>&InvisibleTimes;</mo>
>            <mi>c</mi>
>          </mrow>
>        </mrow>
>      </msqrt>
>    </mrow>
>    <mrow>
>      <mn>2</mn>
>      <mo>&InvisibleTimes;</mo>
>      <mi>a</mi>
>    </mrow>
>  </mfrac>
> </mrow>
></math>
>
>which no one will read at a glance.
>And this is only a very simple formula.
>
>Summary: MathML is an abomination that is a disaster even for web pages,
>and quite unusable by itself for any serious work.

Clearly it's not ideal for typing in, but it's a perfectly good
structural representation.

>Fortunately there are (La)TeX to MathML converters,

Exactly.

-- Richard

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  Re: LaTeX in Pages nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2020-07-20 22:21 +0200
    Re: LaTeX in Pages richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2020-07-20 21:08 +0000
      Re: LaTeX in Pages nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2020-07-22 10:36 +0200
        Re: LaTeX in Pages Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2020-07-22 10:26 +0100

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