From: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Math symbols for HTML
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 11:09:48 -0600
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Ralph Proctor wrote:
> 
> This may not be the appropriate place to ask this, but
> I'm sure somebody here knows--
> 
> Where can I get a set of JPG or GIF math symbols that
> I can use in an HTML paper?

I don't know about publicly available gif files that depicts math
symbols for use in web pages, but there are other ways to serve
mathematically oriented documents on the web.  They usually involve
server side set up or client side plug-in.

The client side plug-ins usually gives better results.  One example is
the IBM TeXplorer plug-in.  This allows embedded TeX in the HTML.

The "server side includes" solution allows the author to publish html
documents with javascripts like
<!-- "ask the client what size font he's using, then turn this TeX input
into a gif image of that size: $\int_0^\infty \, \frac{dx}{x} = \ln x +
C$" -->
When a user views this document in the browser, he will see a gif image
for the entire formula.  If the changes the font size in the browser and
hit reload, the server would generate a different gif image for the new
size.

There's also this thing called MathML that W3C is working on, which I
know nothing about.

There's also the PDFTeX project that generates .pdf files from TeX
inputs, which is usable on the net.

I'm sorry I don't have any links available because my information are at
least one year old.  But if you search for "TeX" and "HTML" together you
might get something useful.  For example, I just found
http://www.webeq.com/webeq/, which looks interesting.  Note, however,
searching the web for "HTML "alone is not a good idea.

The comp.text.tex, comp.text.pdf news groups has in house experts that
can give you a much more appropriate information.

-- 
Weiqi Gao
weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com