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Re: MathML to text converter?

• From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
• To: Dan Shelton <dan.f.shelton@gmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:06:06 +0100

On 16/07/2012 02:13, Dan Shelton wrote:
> Does anyone here know a (good) MathML to ascii converter (written in


what kind of ascii have you in mind? (www-math is probably a better 
place to ask)

For example for docbook normally you are generating html or pdf in which 
case mathml may not need converting at all (html and xsl-fo may 
renderers understand mathml) html or you may need to convert to TeX-in-ascii

Explicitly going from mathml to ascii there is

http://dpcarlisle.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/pmathmlascii

But that produces

infinity
   ----
    \
     )   x
    /     i
   ----
  i = 0

which is fun but unless you have fond memories of 1980's terminal 
interfaces to computer algebra systems, perhaps not so useful.

So perhaps you meant

\sum+{i=0}^\infty x_i

or

The sum from 0 to infinity of x sub i

You could get (something equivalent to) the first of those, TeX syntax, 
from

http://code.google.com/p/web-xslt/source/browse/trunk/pmml2tex

David



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