At 14:15 -0500 1998/12/12, William F. Hammond wrote: >For example, we need to understand exactly why mathematicians have >no trouble parsing > > \sin ax \cos bx . > >Absent that, LaTeX authors will never have a way to know if their >documents will be safely translated without in some way providing >parallel MathML code for every math environment. It is in fact not difficutol to write grammars able to parse such things (because I have done it -- the calculator on my home page used a similar grammar). So what is needed is that the text is written in a context of a grammar together with a set of translation laws to something that is well defined (in effect a local computer language). Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg <mailto:[log in to unmask]> * Home Page: <http://www.matematik.su.se/~haberg/> * AMS member listing: <http://www.ams.org/cml/>