Math Software Descriptions

In order to provide the public with up-to-date information about MathML software, the W3C Math WG encourages software vendors to provide a few paragraphs describing their packages. If you would like to have a software description featured here, please contact the page maintainers listed below.

EzMath

by Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>

In search of an easier to learn and more concise notation, I have been inspired by how people say mathematical expressions when reading aloud. The result is now available for downloading as a free plugin and standalone editing tool for the EzMath notation developed together with Davy Batsalle from ENST in Paris.

EzMath covers the same subset of mathematics as MathML, focussing on the meaning of mathematical notation rather than just how it looks on paper (or screen). EzMath is simple to use and provides a particularly convenient way to author MathML's content tags

IBM Techexplorer

The IBM techexplorer Hypermedia Browser (TM) is an application for the interactive publication of scientific and technical documents. This interactivity is accomplished via support for hypertext, multimedia, user-defined pop-up windows and menus, and a modular architecture that allows connections with other applications and Java applets. The primary version of techexplorer operates as a Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer plug-in and is available for several platforms, including Windows 95 and NT, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, and SGI IRIX.

In addition to being able to display full documents using the supported LaTeX and TeX subset, techexplorer is being extended to support the new Mathematical Markup Language Specification Recommendation from the World Wide Web Consortium.

Visit the techexplorer web site on IBM alphaWorks

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/formula/techexplorer

for more information on techexplorer and download instructions.

WebEQ

WebEQ is a 100% pure Java system for creating and displaying interactive scientific Web documents.

Using the WebEQ Editor, authors can create equations visually using templates and symbol palletes. Using the WebEQ Wizard, authors can add equations to Web pages by inserting WebTeX (a LaTeX-like language) or MathML source code in their HTML documents. The Wizard processes the HTML pages and replaces the equation markup with images, applet calls, WebTeX or MathML, in almost any combination.

The WebEQ applet embeds interactive math directly in Web pages, by reading in the equation descriptions generated by the Editor, the Wizard, or any other application capable of generating MathML. Furthermore, Java and JavaScript programmers can access WebEQ components directly, to build thier own, MathML-capable applications.

Visit the WebEQ home page at

http://www.webeq.com

for further information, and download instructions.