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4.16 Equation Formatting

Unfortunately there are as yet no HTML elements for formatting equations. HTML 3 proposed a rudimentary mathematical markup language, but this has not been widely adopted -- it is only supported by the Arena browser, and even there to only a limited degree.

The best option is to use LaTex2HTML to convert LaTex files (containing equations) to gif files, and to then use "giftrans" (see the the above URL) which can convert GIF's into transparent GIF89a format. These can be included within the document as inlined images using the IMG tag. This is far from ideal, but will have to do until a better solution is found.

If you want to include greek symbols and simple equations, but don't want the bother of using Latex and latex2html (yes, it can be a real bother!), then have a look at Karen Strom's collection of GIF images. They are really very good, and suprisingly easy to use You will find more information at http://donald.phast.umass.edu/kicons/greek.html.

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