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Mathematics on the Web: Basic Methods
Basic methods of including mathematical notation in web pages
take advantage of several relatively simple mechanisms within HTML:
Some Advantages of Basic Methods
- Basic methods are the most reliable:
- Pages are highly transportable,
- They reach the largest possible audience,
- Expert knowledge is not required to create them;
- Entities and marked-up text are searchable;
- Files of reasonable size can be easy to download.
Some Disadvantages of Basic Methods
- Limited layout possibilities;
- Work-arounds can take time to develop;
- Limited interactivity.
A useful tool for mathematicians is
latex2html.
More advanced methods
utilize other software and file formats that will be reviewed next, including:
- HyperTeX and its relatives,
- Adobe PDF files,
- WebEQ java-based equation rendering, and
- SGML publishing tools.
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