Scott
I too would like to find out an answer to this one. We too are
moving towards using perception.
Some staff have had success using acrobat. One uses LaTEX to produce
pdf files, which produces better results than word equation editor.
However, I have not seen a way to embed pdf into perception???
Bye
Paul
> The Maths Dept is resisting the introduction of Perception for maths
> testing, because of the problem of displaying mathematical symbols on the
> Web. How do you get around this problem?
>
> At my institution, the Maths dept are not using the Web very much. One or
> two have tried GIF images, and I do not know of any plug-ins in use.
>
> I am interested in any answers to Steve's question. Please respond to the
> list and not directly to Steve.
>
> (Steve please let me know if you get anything of interest that misses the
> list. - Thanks.)
>
> Regards,
> Scott
>
> Scott Miller, Teaching Services Manager,
> Information Systems and Services Section,
> University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ
> Tel: 01206 873581 Fax: 01206 860585
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Brydges [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 28 February 2000 10:00
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Displaying equations on web
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > I've been asked to see if we can reach an institutional
> > standard for
> > displaying maths/physics (and other) expressions on webpages.
> > The most common technique seems to be using Gifs, but some
> > are using MathML, though this appears to come in a variety of
> > flavours.
> > Each solution seems to require its own plugin, and there's
> > resistance to installing too many plugins into browsers in the user
> > arweas.
> > Has anyone tried to standardise? On what?
> >
> > Steve
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