Re:MathML is a failed web standard
by dspillett on Thursday April 07, 2016 @05:34AM
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> widely-used markup language for mathematical formulae; it's called TeX.
For display yes, though it is far larger in scope than that and I wouldn't want to teach someone TeX just for a few formulas, and it is geared for display and not manipulation.
MathML was intended to be just for math type markup so is more concise in that respect, and IIRC was intended to allow automated manipulation in an easy manner (I wouldn't want to do it by hand due to the verbosity of it all, but understanding and manipulating the structure in code must be easier than trying to interpret TeX).
For display yes, though it is far larger in scope than that and I wouldn't want to teach someone TeX just for a few formulas, and it is geared for display and not manipulation.
MathML was intended to be just for math type markup so is more concise in that respect, and IIRC was intended to allow automated manipulation in an easy manner (I wouldn't want to do it by hand due to the verbosity of it all, but understanding and manipulating the structure in code must be easier than trying to interpret TeX).