Dear ALLSTAT members,
Due to a high demand we are now running a second MathML workshop at the
University of Durham on the 8th July. For those of you who are interested
in attending you can register on-line at
http://www.ctieng.qmw.ac.uk/CTIEng.html
or contact:
Lynn Broadfoot
CTI Statistics
Department of Statistics
University of Glasgow
Glasgow,
Tel: 0141 330 4873
Fax: 0141 330 4814
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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MathML Workshop 2 - Durham 08th July 1999
This workshop is the second in a series of workshops intended for
scientists who have a desire to publish mathematical documents on the Web.
Many scientists experience a certain amount of frustration in using the
Web's underlying language, HTML, because HTML does not do a very good job
of supporting mathematical notation.
MathML is a Markup Language that is intended to facilitate the use of
mathematical content on the Web. Ultimately, it will be possible for
browsers to natively render mathematical expressions, however, for the
immediate future, several vendors offer programs which can render MathML in
place in a browser.
This workshop aims to raise awareness of MathML and will highlight a
selection of the user-friendly applications that generate and render MathML
that are currently available.
The underlying theme of the workshop will be:-
"Putting Mathematical Notation on the Web".
There are five elements to the workshop:-
1) An introduction to MathML.
An overview of MathML and the Role of MathML on the Web.
2) A short introduction and hands-on practical session on OpenMath.
OpenMath is a general representation language for communicating
mathematical objects between application programs.
3) A short introduction and hands-on practical session on EzMath.
EzMath provides an easy to learn notation for embedding mathematical
expressions in Web pages.
The notation is inspired by how expressions are spoken aloud.
4) A short introduction and hands-on practical session on IBM techexplorer.
IBM techexplorer displays documents containing scientific and mathematical
expressions that are coded with a subset of the popular TeX and LaTeX
markup languages.
5) A discussion on the future of the web, centred around, but not stricly
confined to, the issues surrounding representation of mathematical and
statistical notation.
Attendance Fee:
HE staff: 45 pounds
Non HE staff: 95 pounds
Please note that this workshop is not appropriate for those who have no
experience of the web and does not attempt to address the subject of MathML
authoring directly.
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