MathML Puns

Anyone knows of any python library that can easily convert MathML into either an image (jpg, png) or svg? Preferably something that just works with a pip install.

The ones that i have found SVGMath and mathml-to-image service either look abandoned or difficult to setup.

I explore trying to using JS library like MathJax in python, but seems extremely convoluted or difficult to setup.

(I have this question pending in another thread, but)

I'm having trouble with inserting superscripts in MathML; it will take numbers to the second and third power when I insert the entity codes, but it's refusing to do anything past that. I've yet to find any specific tag for superscripts, so the codes were the only thing that would work, up until I needed to do one to the ninth power.

I'm very new to this program, my background is only in HTML, CSS, and minimal C++, so any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

So yeah, reading for L2, would always take screencaps of formulas or copy the easier ones into my word notes, have just realized that the formulas are written in MathML (like on sciencedirect) so I can just insert them into word as actual equations (right click ->Show Math as -> MathML Code -> copy all -> paste special in word -> unformatted text). Hopefully it will be useful for some of you.

So I am developing this web page: https://axiomtutor.github.io/asking/html/notes/dnf_algebra/ch4.html

I believe the source code should be entirely exposed, and you can see that I'm using an import of MathJax. I'm not sure whether I should be doing this because, as I understand it, every time I load the page, it sends my LaTeX code to some server. The server renders the code, sends back a picture of the rendered math expressions, and inserts the image into the page. Given that the page is full of Math and may be loaded many times, am I just unnecessarily consuming a free resource (namely the bandwidth of the server delivering the MathJax renders) wastefully and exploitatively? I wouldn't want to unnecessarily burden them with these requests.

On the other hand I tried doing a local install of MathJax and it wouldn't work for some of the more exotic things that I wanted to do (like rendering of TikZ drawings) which the non-local import is able to do. I have absolutely no idea why there would be this discrepancy, except perhaps the non-local calls are more up-to-date than the latest downloads I could get my hands on? I dunno, just a guess.

But ok, maybe I can get around all of these by switching to MathML? But I already tried to do that too. You can see at the very bottom of the page I have the code:

      <p style="font-family: Asana">
        Test text. g
      </p>
      <p style="font-family: Cambria">
        Test text.
      </p>
      <p style="font-family: DejaVu">
        Test text. <math><mi mathvariant="script" class="calligraphic">A</mi></math>
      </p>

None of the test text looks the way it's supposed to. I tried my best to follow guides on how to use MathML but none of them are very explicit about how this works. On the other hand the stuff in the `<math>` tag renders correctly ... so ... I'm confused about what's going on.

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So my questions are, should I switch to MathML? And if so, what am I doing wrong? Isn't the Asana font supposed to look distinct and have its own suite of math symbols or something like that?

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Edit: Ok, after some more playing and researching I found that I had written the font name as just `Asana` when it's called `Asana Math`. So I made that change, now the font looks right.

But at this point I'm wondering: What'

Wouldn't it be great if OneNote supported math expressions properly, via MathML or TeX/LaTeX? I still cannot figure out how to add a circumflex on top of characters, e.g. L with a hat on top.

I have many calculations in my program. Now I want to convert these caculations to formulas that can be part of reports and documentation (PDF). I want to be 100% certain that the reports match the actual code. What I don't want to do is parse the code myself.

In proof-of-concepts I created classes that contain both the value and the string of an expression.

Expression a("a", 7);
Expression b("b", 3);
Expression c("c");
c = a * b;
std::cout << c.formula() << std::endl; // would print "c = a * b"	

I don't want to handle all cases, such as if, loops, ... myself. So is there a library that can do the job?

I have a <math>…</math> formula, which I can't get to display in Anki. Any clues how might I do that?

I've got a kickstarter going to transcribe Peacock's, 1842, A Treatise On Algebra into MatML. This is an important text as it helped to restart math in England, specifically symbolic logic.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/127456796/mathml-version-of-peacocks-1842-a-treatise-on-alge?ref=project_build#

I've started the project, but it will take some time to finish it. If you have Firefox with the 'Presentation MathML Polyfill' extension you can view sample pages at http://gron.ca/algebra/index.html

Let's show MathML, and Peacock's book, the attention they deserve.

As I know many people want this feature, I've decided to make a post where other Bear users can upvote it publicly.

For reference, see this gist I made on StackEdit, which is a web Markdown editor which uses MathJax to render the notation.

Thanks!

Are you tired of straining your eyes to read ugly math? Do you want Wikipedia's math to look just as good as the rest of the text? It turns out that it can, with a wee bit of rigmarole.

1. Make a Wikipedia account.

2. Log into your Wikipedia account.

3. In your Wikipedia preferences, appearance tab, go down to the bottom of the page and set your math display to "MathML with SVG or PNG fallback". This gets you subpixel AA, but (at least on my machine), the math font is small and bold and inflates the line spacing if you try to enlarge it, so you want a better one.

4. Install Latin Modern Math, through whatever means you install fonts on your system. If you are on Linux and have a texlive install, you may already have it buried in /usr/share/texlive somwhere, in which case you can just copy it to ~/.fonts.

5. Install Stylish if you don't already have it.

6. Go to about:addons, go to the User Styles section, and paste this into a new style:

    @-moz-document domain('wikipedia.org') {
      math {
        font-size: 130%;
        font-family: "Latin Modern Math";
      }
    }
   

(If you have a high resolution screen and are using 2x scaling, leave out the font-size bit.)

Just a heads up since the sidebar has links to TeX-related stuff that soon Chrome will ship with native support for MathML. This concludes my message.

Thanks for your awesomeness and hard work to keep this awesome sub up and running!