Posted by Plamen Ratchev on 12/02/07 03:08

MathML is pretty good, it can support Knuth's Metafont symbols and far
beyond that (there is even a group clarifying implementation details for
Arabic mathematical notation:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-arabic-math-20060131/). I have seen LaTEX and
it is developed more for high quality typesetting systems, while MathML is
virtually applicable to any system that can handle XML.

The standard has been moving well. It is in its third version (last update
from April 2007: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-MathML3-20070427/). The
working group (http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-MathML3-20070427/appendixi.html)
is very diversified with people from academic and business organizations
from around the world (Opera, Boeing, University of Helsinki, Microsoft,
Mathematical Association of America, University of Edinburg, and many more),
which helps to move it in the right direction.

About two years ago I have seen some reports from mathematical conferences
that MathML is in fact used as a protocol for communication between
scientific entities.

Plamen Ratchev
http://www.SQLStudio.com

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