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Subject:Re: [1] Math symbols (sqrt) in html From:Steve Fouts <stefou -at- ESKIMO -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 27 May 1997 13:25:23 -0700
>From: John Trollope <John_Trollope -at- watsonwyatt -dot- com>
>Date: Tue May 27 08:22:20 MDT 1997
> I'm doing the Mother of all Help to Html Conversions at the moment. One
of the
>
> documents uses quite a bit of mathemetical notation. Are there a set of
HTML
> tags that deal with mathmetical notation (in particular, equations using
square
>
> roots and summation symbols)? I'm trying to use as few gifs as possible.
The proposed HTML 3.0 standard included a block tag called <math></math>
that included the ability to do complex equations in HTML.
For whatever reason, <math> was deleted from the HTML 3.2 proposal.
It is still under discussion for inclusion in a later HTML standard.
So the short answer is no.
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