On 8/20/06, Bill Page <address@hidden> wrote:
By "complete" do you mean the output of an entire Axiom session?
Using just dvipng would result in one png file for each page of
the latex document. Certainly it is possible to present the output
of LaTeX in this format but treating everything as an image has
severe limitations in a web browser.
To render a LaTeX document, I think you would be better off using
latex to HTML tool like TeX4ht
http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/mn.html
instead of just dvipng. TeX4ht will generate HTML with embedded
graphics or with MathML. Many people consider MathML the best
available format for web browsers. I agree that it probably will
be "real-soon-now".
I have installed tex4ht. For a single image to display, which is my
current test case, dvipng is much faster. However, probably for a
complete latex document to later be rendered as html probably
TeX4ht should be better (maybe for the pamphlets).
As I mentioned earlier, an alternative to embedded graphics and
MathML is jsMath which uses _javascript_ to emulate the LaTeX math
typesetting functions directly on the web browser. Because this
is a complex process that runs in _javascript_, it is quite a bit
slower than rendering HTML with embedded graphics. The AxiomUI
project made use of jsMath.
As you know, pamphlet files on MathAction are treated a little
differently with only a "thumbnail" displayed on the web page
containing links to the pdf and dvi format generated by LaTeX.
Originally we had planned to use TeX4ht to produce a web page
(or set of web pages) from the pamphlet source but there turned
out to be some technical limitations. It is quite possible with
some additional effort these problems could be solved. If you are
interested about this possibility, please ask.
The first time I used the pamphlet inside MathAction I was expecting to have
the whole pamphlet rendered as html. But displaying the "thumbnail" is okay
because you have the options to see the dvi or pdf.
What I think is missing is have things like commands and graphics be displayed
also when save pamphlet. One way by using the method you already have in:
http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/SandBoxSagePamphlet or displaying in html pages. Whatever option you consider is more convenient. I
would be glad to work on achieving this.
Regards,
Jose Alfredo Perez