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Current Status
The WebEQ equation renderer project is part of a program
of research in mathematical visualization and electronic communication
at the Geometry Center, a national Science Foundation Science and
Technology Center. At the moment, the project is still mostly
exploratory, experimenting with ways of taking advantage of
advances in visualization and communication technology to enhance
scientific understanding and strengthen the infrastructure of a
national and global scientific community.
Where we are:
- March 28, 1996
- WebEQ version 0.98 is released. WebEQ implements the recently
expired HTML 3.0 math tag set almost completely, and offers web
authors a simple and powerful way to include mathematics in web pages.
- March 1, 1996
- Work began on an alternate parser for LaTeX commands. Completion
is scheduled for June.
- February 1, 1996
- Jmath version 0.8 was released. It recognized a
substantial subset of the HTML3.0 math tags, and implemented proportional
spacing and general symbol font support.
Jmath was featured in the inaugural issue of
JavaWorld where it was cited as
one of six applets on the web as most worthy of note.
- December 7, 1995
- A prototype applet was released.
Where we are going:
- LaTeX -- work is underway on an alternate parser which
would allow users the option of describing expression with TeX or
LaTeX commands. We are not planning full implementation of
TeX. At this point, we are only planning to implement the comands and
constructions equivalent to the existing WebEQ math tags.
- Development Tools -- We are planning to create some
development tools in the near future to make using WebEQ even simpler
and to make up for existing Netscape shortcomings. In particular, we
have in mind:
- an
emacs helper mode for easy editing of WebEQ tags
- a java utility program for setting
HEIGHT and
WIDTH tags to their proper values in .html documents
- a PERL script for converting WebEQ .html pages into LaTeX
documents for easy printing
- Browser Developments -- We will be closely watching (and
pressuring if possible) Netscape and other Java borwser makers for
closer integration between java and the browser. In particular,
Netscape has not delivered on three critical features:
- Access to font information to determine the ambient font
- Ability to resize applets after loading to match the ambient font
- Printing
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