Re: [Aimmath-developers] my personal branch in the repository?

[Greg G. <gr...@ol...>]

Jon Breitenbucher wrote:
> Any idea as to when MathML will be a viable possibility?

I don't, but I just downloaded ttm and had a quick look at its
documentation. Its switches and usage are almost identical to tth.
It occurred to me that the way the Java code is written one should
be able to replace the tth binary by ttm and everything should run
as before except that MathML would be produced where HTML was produced
before. Indeed it does. However, Ian Hutchinson points out on his website
that Mozilla only renders MathML in XML. I tried it as a straight HTML
page and everything came out flat - no superscripts etc. So I copied the
page to a file with an .xml extension. Mozilla then recognised the page
as XML but didn't get far because the rules for tags are much more rigorous
than for HTML. It complained of a <br> not having a matching </br>.
I tried some quick fiddles, and eventually got the page to display.
However \sqrt{....} din't seem to be appropriately translated (the radical
sign was printed strangely and the bar over the top became a thick black
line. One would need to work out why it does this (bug in ttm? mozilla?) and
AIM would need to be revised to ensure the tags match and files would need
to be written to files with .xml instead of .html extensions. (What I noticed:
<br>, <hr> and <input> tags need to be replaced by <br/>, <hr/> and <input/>
tags. Are they all the changes needed?)

BTW Did you figure out what was going on with Mac OSX.

  Regards,
  Greg