Tweet Roundup: Arbortext User Meeting September 2010
This month’s Arbortext User Group meeting was on “Building the future of technical publishing with MathFlow, MathType, and MathML“ and presented by Autumn Cuellar & Robert Miner from Design Science. See the original announcement, abstract, and speaker bios here.
In case you missed the meeting, you can read through the live twitter stream preserved here or watch the recorded video recording and see the slides here.
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@SingleSourcing Arbortext User Group TODAY “Building the future of technical publishing with MathFlow, MathType, and MathML” http://su.pr/1zDNs6
Arbortext PTC/User Blog » Blog Archive » September 2010 Meeting Announcement: “Building the future of technical publishing with MathFlow, MathType, and MathML” – A resource for the Arbortext Community |
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@SingleSourcing #Arbortext #ptcuser meeting starting – Building the future of technical publishing with MathFlow, MathType, and MathML about 1 hour ago |
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@SingleSourcing #Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: Dominant model for Science, technical, engineering, medical publishing is based around XML about 1 hour ago |
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@SingleSourcing #Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: MathFlow is industry leading method for working with Math in publishing about 1 hour ago |
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@SingleSourcing #Arbortext #ptcuser A.Cuellar: MathType works with hundreds of applications, most STEM content authors know it. about 1 hour ago |
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@SingleSourcing #Arbortext #ptcuser A.Cuellar: MathType can work with hand-written math entered into your computer. about 1 hour ago |
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@SingleSourcing #Arbortext #ptcuser A.Cuellar: By default, Arbortext converts equations to images for publishing, use MathML with Arbortext and you can edit about 1 hour ago |
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@SingleSourcing #Arbortext #ptcuser A.Cuellar: MathFlow Editor makes math editable in XML editors, and MathML is saved into the document about 1 hour ago |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser A.Cuellar: MathFlow also works with the Arbortext Compose mechanism to compose MathML for the page |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser A.Cuellar: MathFlow composition works for any output (pdf, html, chm…etc) |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser A.Cuellar: MathJax is an open source javascript rendering engine to read in MathML (& TeX) and display in any browser |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: MathType: create and reuse math |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: MathDaisy: convert Math to accessible digital talking books |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: MathJax displays math in modern browsers and exposes it for accessibility and reuse |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: MathPlayer provides accessible, high-quality display of math in IE and screen readers |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: there’s a gelling taking place to help mechanized agents display and process math more effectively |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: For math, it’s very different how math is authored based on who does it and why |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: want to be able to search on math meaning not just symbols |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: Math is used in a lot of applications as well as for processing. |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: It would be great to do the right thing in the right context |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: line wrapping for fractional equations, not so easy.. |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: MathML has been part of the thinking for web since very early on |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: Math is a dependable 5% of all publishing |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: isolated areas of math support are suddenly connecting up |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: last few years get html support, browser implementation, accessibility, pen input, cut/paste interoperability |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: Math ML appeared first in 1998. It’s in it’s 3rd version, and finally a part of key standards (HTML5) |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: MathFlow will be implementing MathML3 in the next version |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser A.Cuellar: Showing MathPlayer 3 which has most of the MathML features, it shows the line breaking features |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser A.Cuellar: No more having to use tables for Math layout |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser A.Cuellar: Get layout like you get in APP (Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser A.Cuellar: Support for Right to Left math layout |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser A.Cuellar: MathPlayer has a “speak expression” feature, that will read out the MathML expression |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser A.Cuellar: “thirteen oh six divided by 3 equals 4 hundred thirty five point three. Here’s why..” (Really Cool!) |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser A.Cuellar: some really exciting features for MathML 3 and the accessibility community |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: Purely mechanized reading based on MathML content |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: MathML semantic/structural approach facilitates accessibility and navigation |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: DAISY 3 has some regulatory force, and MathML is part of the DAISY standard |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: MathML will be required for textbook publishing to meet accessibility requirements |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: ProjectSMART (Kentucky): the more MathML is used, really helped students with disabilities succeed |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: MathType works with Braille systems.. |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser A.Cuellar: Showing a Digital Daisy talking book, uses MathPlayer to speak the math expressions encoded by MathML |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser WOW. The integration between the math and the text it reads seamlessly through the word and expressions |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: That kind of integration just was never available before |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: Navigating in a math expression is 2-D not just forward and back, move in logical directions |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: convergence in accessibility is happening |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: #HTML5 native #MathML implementation in WebKit unerway .. MathJax completes the solution |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: MathJax (Javascript, CSS, webfonts) offers a stable interface adaptable to changing browser capabilities |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: Math in browsers should match surrounding rendering, print well, and require nothing of the reader |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: www.mathjax.org |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: converence in interoperability.. |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser A.Cueller: showing interoperability between browser and other applications via MathJax |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser A.Cueller: right click on equations can view source and change format of the source – can be MathML or TeX |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser A.Cueller: show source on eqn, can copy and paste into other applications. |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser A.Cueller: copied to clipboard, pasted into Mathematica, Word, see the typeset version or the MathML version |
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@SingleSourcing #Arbortext #ptcuser A.Cueller: copy/paste of TeX rendering same formula.. into wikipedia for example 40 minutes ago |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: This is just the tip of the iceberg, lots of cool stuff going on in math and publishing today 39 minutes ago |
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@SingleSourcing #Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: We’re looking at how to use Arbortext and MathFlow for an ebook workflow 37 minutes ago |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: web apps are becoming increasingly important for display and authoring |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: cut and paste interoperability via tools like MathType will become increasingly important |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: exposing data in published output will have increasing value (interoperability, reuse, and searchability) |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: New discover-ability and collaboration models in math community: MathOverflow.net and Polymath project |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: What about tweeting equations? |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser R.Miner: MathML brings convergence – display, editing, accessibility, discovery, and reuse |
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#Arbortext #ptcuser Great presentation! Thanks for attending the video will be posted soon |
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