eds.activemath.org

This task describes the simple input of a polynomial within the formulæ, their preview in the web-browser, and the usage of their added value presentation

It’s not really new that mathematical notation is made there to be abused so as to be most efficient for the current context. But I just met an extreme case:

In the OpenMath3 and MathML3-content efforts, we are polishing the description of symbols’ so that they can be common. Discussion about using linear syntax appears, of course, and an extreme case about the need for context was just posted by James Davenport:

I recently had a very simple request… soooo simple: our user just wishes to copy the formula from Mathematica (which can copy it in MathML) and paste it on something that does web.

I just went around and tried… SeaMonkey should support that in editor and reader: copy a piece of HTML with MathML and paste it, didn’t even work… my 1/x became a place full of nbsps in three lines!

Recently, Bob Matthews posted a mathtype trick, something that was not new to me, but something that struck me this time: you can, now, copy-and-paste from Wikipedia, shown in a current browser, into MathType (so into Word or PowerPoint).

Could eds.activemath.org please consider and explore a Mathematical User Interface(MUI) enabled as a service, in order to facilitate a somewhat more seamless integration of being able to input Mathematical content into Drupal, the currently chosen communication medium, or otherwise?