Refers to a way of marking up mathematical formula. Several examples out there:
- TeX and LaTex provide excellent mathematical markup
- MathMl.
Might it be useful to add some math support to
WardsWiki? Obviously, using quote marks for italics and bold is something that doesn't scale well. Entering raw
MathMl would be a pain; TeX is probably a better model.
Stuff we would need:
- Fonts: Roman, italics, script, that stylized font with the letter R when representing the real numbers (what is it called)? blackboard font
- Easy access to greek and Hebrew letters (SIGMA, aleph) [and that means the right fonts]
- Easy access to numerous other mathematical symbols (times, right-turnstyle, subset-of) [and that means the right fonts]
- Support for superscripting and subscripting
A quick and dirty solution: allow LaTeX markup, which is processed on the server and included in the page as an image. This is done on other wikis.