Maths on the Web
HTML does not handle most mathematical symbols or constructions, so only the very simplest equations can be typed directly into a web page. There are several ways round this, most of which are based on the TeX or Latex typesetting languages.
If you are only want to use a few equations, you can capture them as a gif or jpeg file and insert them as an image in the page.
Latex2html
This is free a program which converts Latex documents to HTML. All maths and figures are converted to GIF files. Latex2html is currently available only for Unix.
http://saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de/~latex2ht/
Maple
Maple worksheets can be exported as HTML, complete with index, hyperlinks and graphics. Maths lines and graphics are stored as GIFs in a separate directory. One disadvantage is that the Maple command lines are left in.
Amaya
W3C's browser/editor: With Amaya you can edit complex mathematical expressions within HTML pages through a WYSIWYG interface. See some examples.
Other resources
Summaries of approaches to putting maths on the web can be found at the following sites
- Electronic Representation of Math/Scientific Expressions
- http://www.mathnews.net/typesetting.phtml
- http://silas.psfc.mit.edu/tth/webmath.html
The CTI Mathematics newsletter for August 1998 contains an article on "Putting Maths on the Web" http://www.bham.ac.uk/ctimath/newsletter/vol9.htm#vol9no3
Information about Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) can be found at: http://www.w3.org/Math/