[ANN] Ritex 0.2 released: Latex -> MathML converter

[William Morgan]

It's been almost four years since the last release, but I dusted off
the ol' codebase, fixed some bugs, added some features, and voila,
a new release.

Ritex turns "WebTeX" (essentially LaTeX math) into MathML. You can see
it in action here: http://all-thing.net/label/stats/

Ritex features macro support, a bevy of heavy unit tests, and a
pure-Ruby implementation.

Interesting bits of the 0.2. release:
- array options finally supported
- better unary minus detection
- various tweaks and bugfixes

"gem install ritex", or visit the homepage: http://masanjin.net/ritex/.

 

[Joel VanderWerf]

It's been almost four years since the last release, but I dusted off
the ol' codebase, fixed some bugs, added some features, and voila,
a new release.

Ritex turns "WebTeX" (essentially LaTeX math) into MathML. You can see
it in action here: http://all-thing.net/label/stats/

Is it supposed to look like this?

dd2E[]+2=02E[]+2=0=E[]

 

[William Morgan]

Reformatted excerpts from Joel VanderWerf's message of 2009-04-02:

Is it supposed to look like this?

dd2E[]+2=02E[]+2=0=E[]

Nope. The magic of MathML is that, 10 years later, it's still a fight to
get browsers to display it.

Are you using Safari? Webkit doesn't have Mathml support.

Can you see the examples on http://www.w3.org/Math/XSL/pmathml2.xml?

 

[Joel VanderWerf]

Reformatted excerpts from Joel VanderWerf's message of 2009-04-02:

Is it supposed to look like this?

dd2E[]+2=02E[]+2=0=E[]

Nope. The magic of MathML is that, 10 years later, it's still a fight to
get browsers to display it.

Are you using Safari? Webkit doesn't have Mathml support.

Can you see the examples on http://www.w3.org/Math/XSL/pmathml2.xml?

Ah, I was using Konqueror (so probably same as Safari or any
Webkit-based browser).

In firefox, the equations do display nicely.

 

[William Morgan]

Reformatted excerpts from Joel VanderWerf's message of 2009-04-02:

Ah, I was using Konqueror (so probably same as Safari or any
Webkit-based browser).

In firefox, the equations do display nicely.

This is presumably why sites like Wikipedia, which actually care about
disseminating information and are not just futile platforms for shouting
into the void in a frantic attempt to mask the horrifying lack of
meaning to a lonely existence, generate images instead of using MathML.

 

[Joel VanderWerf]

Reformatted excerpts from Joel VanderWerf's message of 2009-04-02:

This is presumably why sites like Wikipedia, which actually care about
disseminating information and are not just futile platforms for shouting
into the void in a frantic attempt to mask the horrifying lack of
meaning to a lonely existence, generate images instead of using MathML.

Webby does this too.