[WWdevel] LaTeXMathML mode

[Davide P. C. <dp...@un...>]

I have added a LaTeXMathML mode based on the message we received from  
Peter Jipsen announcing the modification to ASCIIMathML.  This works  
a lot better for our needs than the original ASCIIMathML (though I  
didn't remove that mode), as it handles much more of the LaTeX  
commands and syntax.  I don't have MSIE with the MathPlayer plugin,  
so I can't test it there.  Could someone else check that?

There are still some problems, however:

1.  It doesn't handle all the plain TeX commands, only LaTeX ones.   
So things like \bf and \rm don't work.  I modified LaTeXMathML.js to  
handle these and a few other easy ones, but there are still plenty of  
others that it doesn't handle.  (For example, \kern, which is used in  
some of the table macros).  It does not appear easy to add this (and  
I'm not inclined to spend the time on it myself).

2.  It doesn't handle \begin{array}...\end{array}, which is central  
to a number of the layout macros.  I didn't look into how hard that  
would be to add.

3.  It doesn't do the optional parameter for \sqrt[n]{...} which is  
used by some problems.  It probably could be added, but I didn't try.

I worked around several other limitations listed on the LaTeXMathML  
home page (http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/personal/drw/lm.html),  
so this is probably usable for many problems.

Anyway, thought I'd pass on this information.

Davide