Re: [Jscl-meditor-users] meditor to XHTML conversion

[Raphael J. <rap...@fr...>]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:28:39 Dimitri Pissarenko wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> First of all, thanks for writing meditor. It's a great tool!
> 
> I'm using meditor primarily on my Palm. I use it to solve some
> exercises.
> 
> Sometimes, I want to show those solutions to someone else. Using 
> desktop version of meditor, I transform mathematical experssions I
> wrote on
> Palm into MathML, then put the whole stuff into an xhtml file, and
> then
> I can view the formulae in a MathML capable browser (Amaya or Mozilla
> or
> Mozilla Firefox).
> 
> All that works fine.
> 
> However, I need to perform several steps manually:
> 
> 1) Invoke "To MathML" operation on EVERY mathematical expression in
> the text
> 
> 2) Replace line feeds by "<br/>"
> 
> 3) Put the result of 1) and 2) into an xhtml template file with all
> MathML
> specific settings
> 
> 4) Surround each MathML block with <math
> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
> and </math>
> 
> As you see, all of these steps can be automated.
> 
> I would like to know following:
> 
> a) Has someone already written some piece of software, which
> transforms
> a meditor file to XHTML without user intervention?
> 
> b) What is the best way to mark the expressions, which have to be
> converted
> to MathML? Begin and end markers like §§{{a, b}, {c, d}}§§ where all
> the 
> text between §§'s is transformed into MathML?
> 
> TIA
> 
> dap

Hello Dimitri,

I don't think anybody has already written a meditor to XHTML converter. 
The point is that there is no such thing as a meditor format. The format 
is .txt files. As you point out, one would need delimiters for math 
expressions.

As now, I was engaging in a "direct-to-web" way, as you can see with 
meditorworld : copy/paste the MathML code in a wiki textarea with <math> 
tags, and done. However there's still as many actions as math 
expressions, so this is still slow. Moreover the resulting text is big. 
I was thinking of TeX as a replacement, work is in progress at the 
mediawiki staff regarding MathML rendering of TeX expressions.

But I think your idea is good. I would have to add an "export->MathML" 
menu item to perform the automatic conversion. What about brackets [] as 
math expression delimiters ?

Raphael