OpenSP and Plane 1 characters

[William F Hammond]

I said something about plane 1 in my previous message.

Before plane 1 disappears from view, let me point out the issue for
OpenSP with plane 1 found in the discussion at sourceforge/openjade-dev
this month.  Of course, because MathML and XHTML are under the XML
umbrella, and XML parsers are widely available, one may think OpenSP
is irrelevant here.  But OpenSP is both relevant and nearly unique for
the general question of using author-level LaTeX-like languages to
write mathematical documents.  The issue is, therefore, tangential
here but not irrelevant.  If anyone out there has fixed this quietly,
I'd like to hear about it.

Thanks.

                                    -- Bill

[William F Hammond]

Dear Friends,

At least a few of us know that W3C's "slidy" package for HTML
slides is compatible with XHTML+MathML.

Using it for one's presentations is a way to encourage others
to use XHTML+MathML.  Examples can be found in my website.

                                    -- Bill

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[Jacques Distler]

 > At least a few of us know that W3C's "slidy" package for HTML
 > slides is compatible with XHTML+MathML.

Along those lines, Instiki

    http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/wiki/instiki/show/HomePage

has built-in support for slideshows,

    http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/wiki/instiki/show/S5

based on S5. But, unlike Slidy, which would require the user to author  
well-formed XHTML+MathML, the input format for Instiki is much more  
user-friendly. While you *can* enter raw XHTML(+ MathML), it's much  
easier to author your slides using Markdown

    http://maruku.rubyforge.org/maruku.html

plus itex.

    http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/itex2MMLcommands.html

Cheers,
Jacques

[William F Hammond]

> ...   But, unlike Slidy, which would require the user to author
> well-formed XHTML+MathML, the input format for Instiki is much more
> user-friendly. While you *can* enter raw XHTML(+ MathML), it's much
> easier ...

What I suggested would require the user to *generate* correct
XHTML+MathML with suitable hooks for slidy, but I would never
recommend that an author undertake direct editing of raw xhtml+mathl.
I might have mentioned that there's a development-level
xhtml+mathml+slidy formatter for use with gellmu that may be found at
http://www.albany.edu/~hammond/gellmu/.  (The diffs from the standard
xhtml+mathml formatter [11400 lines of perl] amount to only 55 lines.)

                                    -- Bill