WWW and gopher - and math
Flemming Topsoe <topsoe@euromath.dk> Wed, 05 April 1995 11:53 UTC
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As a remark in connection with the recent discussion on this list, I point to the lack of possibilities for convenient inclusion of mathematical expressions in either WWW or gopherspace. However, we believe that soon this will be possible in the WWW environment. If any of you go to the WWW conference next week in Darmstadt (cf. html://www.igd.fhg.de/www95.html) you may be interested in attending a panel discussion on HTML3 and mathematics (scheduled for Tuesday afternoon). <for irritating reasons I have had to cancel my own participation in this to me/us important event>. For mathematics we believe that the WWW philosophy is superior because of the importance of structure in your documents. After Darmstadt I much hope some consensus as to how math can be integrated in the web will emerge. Let me know if any of you are specially interested in this. The Euromath group believes our DTD (developed under SGML) is the perfect tool (or the perfect base at least) and may decide to finetune it and make it available for non-for-profit use at least. We would appreciate being contacted by interested persons/groups who could exploit this development. Also, we ask if any of you are aware of a suitable base which would allow a similar development for chemical expressions/formulea. -Flemming Topsoe ======================================================================= Flemming Tops o/e | topsoe@euromath.dk Matematisk Institut | +45 35 32 07 32 K o/benhavns Universitet | +45 35 32 07 23 (messages) Universitetsparken 5 | +45 42 89 09 08 (home) DK-2100 Copenhagen | +45 35 32 07 19 (fax) Denmark | Other | European Mathematical Trust, Canterbury affili- | Computing Laboratory, University of Kent at Canterbury ations: | Euromath Center, Copenhagen. =======================================================================
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