Re: OT: Presenting Mathematics on the Web.
- From: Quentin Grady <quentin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:50:45 +1200
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On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:07:07 -0700, "mensanator@xxxxxxxxxxx"
<mensanator@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 21, 11:54?pm, Quentin Grady <quen...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
G'day G'day Folks,
About a decade ago, I embarked on a journey of personal discovery into
the world of simple arithmetic mostly relating to my occupation as a
teacher of technician level electrical theory. Some of the more
interesting items I posted on a website hosted by my wife and I.
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/quentin/maths_meander.htm
Other things happened including a diagnosis of a terminal illness
(thankfully in remission) and I neglected the website. Gremlins
appeared in my mathematics pages in the form of strings of a variant
of the capital letter A and few other specific letters. Now, I'd like
to put my house in order and get the maths pages back in proper order
but frankly don't know how to go about it. It has been so long that
I've even forgotten the software I used to publish the pages although
I recall it was associated with MathType.
Try looking at the web page source:
<meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 10">
G'day G'day,
Thank you. Yes Microsoft Word 10 could be the root cause of my
problems with the pages with mathematics content. There is plenty of
prejudice about MS word especially where web publishing is concerned
and I guess it is fully justified. As already noted though it did work
happily for years and is only in the last few years that the pages
have given me hassle.
OK, so here is the rub. MathType works from within Microsoft Word.
MathType is the math editor that I have available to me at the moment.
What I'm looking for is workable solutions. I was then and I am now.
I've been told that today's
modern browsers are much more fussy about HTML syntax and this is what
is producing the gremlins.
This is where the suggestion that it is MS Word that is causing the
problems would appear to have validity. It could be the formatting
that is usually invisible in MS Word becoming visible.
Maybe they're just fussy about stupid fonts:
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
panose-1:3 15 7 2 3 3 2 2 2 4;
I find the prejudice against "Comic Sans MS" fascinating.
You're not the only person to dislike it. Some business gurus seem to
be upset by the thought it might appear in their death by Power Point
presentations.
Perhaps I should take more notice of such prejudices.
As it happens I've used "Comic Sans" often when writing definitions
for student notes as it has more of a hand written appearance. FWIIW
my students found definitions written in it, easier to remember. That
for me was more important.
Is that anything you should be using on the Internet?
Well, the intent was to provide a friendly site.
What fonts would you suggest provide a friendly appearance?
Times change and I'm willing to start afresh in order to put together
my Mathematics Meandering.
Maybe the funny characters are glyphs in the Comic
font that have no equivalent in whatever font is
being substituted by the browser.
OK, that's a possibility, easy enough for me to check out.
Obviously, I'm using Comic Sans on my computer and when I take a look
at NON-mathematical pages on my website that also contain Comic Sans
they are all perfectly readable with no gremlins.
So, sorry, its a great idea but it doesn't hold up.
Please can someone knowledgeable in Web MathML matters tell me how to
go about getting this part of our website up and running again so that
looking at it and using it is a pleasurable experience.
Are there any browsers that use MathML?
Yes. Well there were ten years ago. I no longer use one specifically
set up to read and write MathML since the one I tried didn't work as
well for routine HTML. Put simply it was clumsy and less attractive to
use.
Thank you for your comments.
It has been useful to consider and eliminate at least one possibility.
Best wishes,
--
Quentin Grady ^ ^ /
New Zealand, >#,#< [
/ \ /\
"... and the blind dog was leading."
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/quentin
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