Re: [Docutils-users] ASCII math?

[Paul T. <pau...@gm...>]

On 10/13/11 3:12 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> I have been off of this mailing list for a while, so sorry if this 
> topic has been covered. I notice that a math directive has been added, 
> and wondered if there are any plans on using ASCIImath in this directive?
>
> http://www.wjagray.co.uk/maths/ASCIIMathTutorial.html
>
> There is an excellent javascript script to convert ASCIImath for 
> webpages, but I can't find anything to convert them from a shell. 
> Ideally, there could be python code for converting ASCIImath to 
> MathML, though I understand such code would probably require a lot of 
> work and would not be trivial. I am simply trying to find out if this 
> has been considered.
>
> It does seems ASCIImath is ideas for restructredtext.
>
>
It seems like someone has already done the work for asciimath to mathml:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/asciimathml/0.9.3

import markdown
print markdown.markdown('$$ sqrt 2 $$', ['asciimathml'])

<p>
<math 
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mstyle><msqrt><mn>2</mn></msqrt></mstyle></math>
</p>

Any thoughts on using this library with the math directive?