Enquiries should be made in the first instance to
Lynn Broadfoot
CTI Statistics
Department of Statistics
University of Glasgow
Glasgow,
Tel: 0141 330 4873
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MathML Workshop - London 25th June 1999
This workshop is 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 the Origins and Goals of MathML and the Role of MathML on
the Web with a brief look at the elements of MathML.
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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