[K12OSN] Mathtype (WAS:Database for desktop...)

[Gary Frederick]

Both Mozilla and Amaya support MathML.
   http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
     http://www.w3.org/Amaya/Amaya.html#math
     http://www.w3.org/Amaya/MathExamples.html

   http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/

What does LaTeX give you that MathML does not?

Disclaimer: Just curious

Gary


Tom Haynes wrote:
> Terrell Prude', Jr. wrote...
> 
> Have you ever considered using LaTeX for doing your math typesetting?  A
> friend of mine at the University of Washington converted the entire Math
> Dept. there over to using LaTeX--remember, these are all ego-maniac Ph.
> D. professors here--and not only did they convert to using LaTeX, but
> they now swear by it and won't consider anything that isn't as good.
> Before that, they'd used Microsoft Office for this purpose, and their
> attitude was, "I don't have time to learn any 'new technology'; I have
> to do my research and teach!  I've got a *job* to do!"
> 
> Here's how my friend did it.  He, being a math instructor himself, made
> up some student worksheets for the calculus classes, and he showed them
> to a couple of math professors.  The profs said, "Wow, that's pretty
> cool.  How long did it take you?"  My friend said, "Oh, about 5
> minutes."  Then he went and showed them how he did it.  Sure enough,
> five minutes later, he'd made another worksheet with some good calculus
> problems (definite integrals and such).  After picking up their jaws,
> the profs said, "Can you show us how?"  He again did, and the rest is
> history.
> 
> --snip--
> 
> I would like to correspond with a math teacher off-list who has messed with
> one of the TeX editors. I looked all over and decided to try MiKTex on my
> Wintel laptop. As close as I can tell, I need to write this stuff in
> html-like code and then compile it to generate a *.ps file. I may be barking
> up the wrong TeX tree, but no one in my dept is going to give this a second
> look. MathType works pretty well, and it is integrated with Office. I
> understand the philosophical issues and all, but I am a practical guy.
> 
> Regards...  Tom
> 
> 
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