/itexToMML

INTRODUCTION:

This package contains the distribution for itex2MML. Binaries for MacOSX and

Linux are provided in the itex-binaries directory. The source code is in the

itex-src directory. It should compile on most platforms by simply typing "make".

Also included is a MovableType (2.6 or greater) plugin which provides two

Text Filtering options:

1) itex to MathML

2) itex to MathML with parbreaks

The plugin relies on the itex2MML commandline utility to do the actual

conversion. The first filter is a straight itex2MML translation. The latter

uses the "TeX" (and blogger's) convention that two linebreaks in succession

signify a new paragraph. (The bloggers also like to convert single linebreaks

to <br />, but that would mess with TeX formula entry, so we don't support it.)

Another plugin, which adds itex support to the Textile and Markdown text

filters is available separately from 

    http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/000374.html

To use it, you need both this plugin and the Textile and/or Markdown plugins

installed.

See

      http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/itex2MMLcommands.html

and the itex2MML homepage 

      http://pear.math.pitt.edu/mathzilla/itex2mml.html

for more details on composing in itex and using the itex2MML program.

The version of itex2MML included here is a greatly-enhanced version, with

many bugfixes and support for a larger subset of LaTeX/AMSLaTeX syntax.

Below I've put some simple notes specific to the use of this plugin.

USAGE NOTES:

1) Tex equations are delimited by $...$ (inline) or \[...\] (display).

Alternatively, $$...$$ can also be used to delimit display equations. So,

just as in a TeX document, be sure you don't have any free-floating $'s

in your text. If you want to enter something that renders as a $, use

the unicode entity $.

2) If you are using the "itex to MathML with parbreaks" filter, paragraph

breaks are inserted automatically. So

              Some text is here.

              Some more text

              \[    display equation    \]

              Yet more text.

              And still more.

gets turned into three paragraphs.  If you are using the plain

"itex to MathML" filter, you need to put in the paragraph breaks

yourself, so the above would look like

              <p>Some text is here. </p>

              <p>Some more text

              \[    display equation    \]

              Yet more text.</p>         

              <p>And still more.</p>

3) Mozilla only renders MathML when you serve the document as XML (ie

using the MIME type application/xhtml+xml rather than text/html). You had better

be producing 100% valid XHTML if you want to see *anything* when Mozilla

is operating in that mode.

4)The best way to serve up XML to Mozilla, while still catering to

other browsers is to use mod_rewrite rules in the .htaccess file of your

blog. See

    http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/000167.html

for how to do that.

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

1) Put itex2MML.pl in your MovableType plugins directory.

2) If you are running MacOSX or Linux, I've provided a precompiled binary,

so you can skip to step 3).

If these don't do the trick for you, or if you prefer to compile your own,

cd into the itex-src directory and type "make". The result should be an itex2MML

binary for your architecture.

3) Copy itex2MML into /usr/local/bin/, and make sure it's executable

(mode 755). If you decide to put it in another location, you merely have

to edit itex2MML.pl to reflect its new location.

As with Paul Gartside's original version,

  http://pear.math.pitt.edu/mathzilla/itex2mmlBugs.html

itex2MML is Open Source software, released under a dual license: GPL and MPL.