How to Display Mathematical Equations on the Web

IAP -- Thursday, January 9, 2003

Daniel Jamous

Academic Computing Support, Information Systems

Examples

See the same source document with equations displayed on the web using different methods. The LaTeX source can be found here.

• Equations converted into GIF images using latex2html.
• Same as above but using the latex2html command-line options -split 0 -no_navigation.
• Document converted into PDF using pdflatex.
• Equations converted into HTML with symbol fonts and tables using TtH.
  Browser configuration adjustments might be needed for proper rendering. See instructions here.
• Equations converted into MathML using TtM.
  Requires Mozilla or Netscape 7.0 for proper viewing. Currently not viewable under Internet Explorer.

Slides shown during the presentation

Other related presentations given this January

Dr. Michael Kohlhase
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University and World Wide Web Consortium Math Working Group

• Using MathML to Display Math on the Web -- Thursday January 23, 9-11am, room 4-237.
  NOTE: this presentation is part of IAP but is not in the print catalog.
• CMU Course Capsules: Capturing the Content of Computer Science -- Friday January 24, 3-5pm, room 4-237.