Roozbeh Pournader writes: > Interesting, interesting! I find every TeX guru somewhere in the > *ML world. Today I was looking at the XML FAQ, and found > \emph{The Typographer}'s name there (i.e., Peter Flynn). > Where should I fly? :))))))))) actually, i'd say that TeXxies are marginal in the XML world. most of the big names either abandoned TeX some time back, or never knew it, so far as I can see. > Oh oh! First rule: good freely available TeX material should exits always. "rule"? you make it sound like the silly US constitution, as if to say "right"! > Many people, but not everyone, I think even if I get very professional > in MathML, a simple MathML formula like the famous equivalent of > x = \frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^{2} - 4ac}}{2a} > seems very obscure to me. you can carry on writing this, and have converters to turn it to MathML, no problem (I say this, having worked on a LaTeX to MathML conversion system with Eitan Gurari, and I assure you that it works). BUT BUT BUT you will find it hard indeed to generate *semantic* MathML from your TeX markup. Someone might want to consider writing a LATeX package which implements a markup for semantic math which will translate to MathML easily Sebastian