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From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2002 Oct 24, 11:07 -0400
From: Jared Sherman
Date: 2002 Oct 24, 11:07 -0400
George, I'm not sure how "proper equations" would fit into the world of www pages. Obviously you could build web pages with any simple text editor. If you confine yourself the the HTML3.2 standard the language is fairly simple and it was considered normal to literally write the code for the entire page, then simply open it in a browser (which you already have) to view it, and redit it as needed. But HTML3.2 provides very limited support for equation writing as there is no easy means to include greek letters--they are not included in the usual western english character set on the computer. Still, there is support for subperscript, subscript, lines above/below, and substantial equation editing. You might want to seek out the old HTML3.2 standards at http://www.w3c.org to see how powerful this can be--using the text editor you already own, with whatever character support is already present. A tiny graphics editor can be used to allow the insertion of small inline GIF images to extend that further if need be.
