Re:Bringing MathML back to Chromium
by andyferris on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:30PM
(#34334340)
This confuses me... TeX and LaTeX by extension are entire programming languages, in terms of _capability_ MathML is to LaTeX what JSON is to Javascript - just a representation of the final output, rather than the logic to produce it.
That said I think just having a universal "target" format for formulae will make things much better (much like JSON itself is an "advancement" in it's own right,
because of the easy interoperability it unlocks).
Re:Bringing MathML back to Chromium
by runarberg on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @11:52AM
(#34340697)
Indeed. That’s the sense that I get as well. MathML is ultimately about rendering but not the language, but they had to pick a language, so they picked one that was easy to translate into, and had a nice mapping to the DOM structure.
That said I think just having a universal "target" format for formulae will make things much better (much like JSON itself is an "advancement" in it's own right, because of the easy interoperability it unlocks).