[uf-new] an equation/MathML/TeX microformat?

[Jeff McNeill]

Aloha,

Found this useful site which has a variety of approaches to math text
descriptions[1]. It discusses the elements as mentioned by
Christopher:

* image
* code
* description (natural language summary (for alt or longdesc)

[1] http://nimas.cast.org/about/resources/math/text_descriptions.html

-- 
Sincerely,
Jeff McNeill
http://jeffmcneill.com/


On 10/26/07, Christopher St John <ckstjohn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/26/07, Jeff McNeill <jeff at jeffmcneill.com> wrote:
> >
> > Not quite sure that (alt="") is not its intended or suggested use ...
> >
>
> There are (at least) three artifacts involved:
>
>  a) The text that should be pronounced by a screen reader ( the alt
>     text in <img
>    src="http://jeffmcneill.com/cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?E(aX+b)=aE(X)+b"
>    alt= "E(aX+b)=aE(X)+b" /> )
>
>  b) The underlying semantic representation, possibly MathML,
>    possibly TeX). As (a) shows you can sometimes _say_ TeX (and
>    sometimes arguably not: \Large f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^x e^{-t^2}dt), but
>    nobody should ever be forced to listen to MathML spoken aloud
>    because it looks like this: "...<mrow><msup><mfenced open=
>    "[" close="]"><mrow><mi>a</mi><mo>+</mo>..."
>
>  c) The <img> that is the rendering of the underlying semantic
>    markup.
>
> But the Wikipedia work is certainly a good start at an examples list,
> and in my Googling around I came across several others. Although I
> have a sneaking suspicion this might not really be a big-M uf thing,
> it's certainly seems worth gathering more examples as ammunition
> for whatever next step is appropriate.
>
> On 10/26/07, Paul Topping <pault at dessci.com> wrote:
> > ... It is
> > exactly this kind of hack that I'm looking to microformats to escape
> > from.
> >
>
> In that case, you're going to _hate_ microformats, because they
> don't so much escape those kinds of hacks as enshrine them
> as standards :-)
>
> -cks
>
> --
> Christopher St. John
> http://artofsystems.blogspot.com
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