Equations Editor...

[Hillary Handwerger]

You might try putting in the string  =

This is the equal sign for the ISO-Latin-1 character set.  It should work 
for most of the newer browsers.



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Hillary Handwerger
hillaryh at sme.org
Society of Manufacturing Engineers-- CoNDUIT Project
313 271-1500 ext 597 
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On Mon, 22 Jan 1996, Alexander, Larry wrote:

> Lesley,
> 
> Unfortunately, HTML is not as robust as SGML and cannot handle equations. 
> This is due to a combination of special font display and character 
> placement problems.
> 
> The best bet is to place small graphics of the equations either inline or 
> as stand alone .gif files as appropriate. You mention that the equations 
> may be saved as graphics, so it sounds like screen capture won't be 
> necessary in order for you to get the equations in this format.
> 
> Here's a final thought on this. Have you considered Adobe Acrobat? You 
> could simply distill the pages into PDF files on the PC creating the pages. 
> You can then have a link to the free Adobe Acrobat reader which is a 
> "helper" application for the WWW browser. The free reader is now available 
> for Windows (3.XX, NT, '95), Macs, and UNIX Sun, HP, and SGI (beta). All of 
> the equations would display exactly as in the original with no loss in 
> quality that you would get as a result of .gif files.
> 
> If you want to discuss this avenue further, please write to me offline.
> 
> 
> Larry Alexander
> Academic Press
> 
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