[om] OpenMath and Imaging

Wim de Vries w.vries at elsevier.nl
Mon Sep 27 12:24:07 CEST 1999


Why not just translate to MathML presentation? Web browser supliers (I.E.,
Netscape, Amaya) are already developing MathML rendering features.


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> From: owner-om at lars.math.FSU.EDU [mailto:owner-om at lars.math.FSU.EDU]On
> Behalf Of Vilya Harvey
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 11:55 AM
> To: om at lars.math.FSU.EDU
> Subject: Re: [om] OpenMath and Imaging
>
>
> Manfred Riem wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> >         I'm currently involved in a project that will render
> > OpenMath objects. We're thinking about the following layout
> > to achieve this.
> >
> > 1. OpenMath XML --> 2. OpenMath Object  |
> >                                         |-> 4. DisplayTree
> >                  3. OpenMath Stylesheet |       |
> >                                                 |
> >                                          5. JPEG/GIF/Canvas
>
> As has already been mentioned, it is probably worth taking a look at XSL
> for the stylesheet language [1]. There are several up-to-date XSL
> processors written in Java with the source available [2], that you could
> embed into your application; I believe there is even a program to compile
> a given XSL stylesheet into a Java class. Using something like that would
> probably save you quite a lot of work.
>
> <snip>
> > Some notes about point 3:
> >         So far I have 6 operators (image-classes). These
> > operator classes are the basis for the rendering. The first
> > question I've got is simple: "Do those operators cover about
> > all there is in rendering OpenMath?"
> <snip>
>
> You seem to have left out radicals (square root, cube root, etc.). They're
> kind of important... :-)
>
> > We'll be using the JAI library to do the rendering
> <snip>
>
> Do you have a URL for the JAI library? I'm interested in having a look at
> it.
>
> Vil.
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl/
> [2] Some XML processors in Java:
>     James Clark's XT: http://www.jclark.com/xml/xt.html
>     IBM's LotusXSL:   http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/LotusXSL
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