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Re:New Search Strategy for Firefox by netheril96 on Thursday November 20, 2014 @10:46AM (#8636249)
I was one of the users who thought MathML was important. Until I don't. MathML itself is a terrible idea as no one can write a formula like that. Most mathematicians and physicists are already familiar with LaTeX, but the standards body have to invent an much more verbose language that only machines can read.

I'm happy with MathJax.

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Re:New Search Strategy for Firefox by dhimes on Friday November 21, 2014 @08:21AM (#8641103)
MathML was important, because the only alternative was webEQ or other things that turned the equations into pictures.

I would write equations in the openoffice equation editor and run an awk script on them. Tedious, but I'm not repulsed by such things.

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