upload (new version of) mimetex.zip to ftp.dante.de
Rainer Schöpf
rainer.schoepf at proteosys.com
Tue Jul 29 15:12:47 CEST 2003
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, John Forkosh wrote:
> As per your README.uploads instructions...
> + what you've uploaded
> mimetex.zip
> (version 1.10, to replace support/mimetex/mimetex.zip)
> + which CTAN node you've uploaded to
> ftp.dante.de
> + where you want the files to go
> support/mimetex
> Please REPLACE all existing files (mimetex.zip and README) in
> support/mimetex (and please unzip mimetex.zip README and then
> place this separate copy of README "alongside" mimetex.zip in the
> support/mimetex directory)
> + what licensing conditions you apply to your software
> GNU GPL
> + brief summary of what your upload is intended to do.
> (a) Completely replaced mimeTeX's original built-in fonts
> with thinner and more pleasing fonts, and added one
> larger font size.
> (b) Also: several new and tested, but as yet unused, functions
> to eventually support super-sampling anti-aliasing
> (with or without rotated grid), and general code modifications
> to eventually support this improved anti-aliasing.
> ----------------------------------------------------
> From the original submission...
> MimeTeX parses LaTeX math expressions, and emits either mime
> xbitmaps or gif images of them, rather than the usual TeX dvi's.
> Therefore, mimeTeX's images can be imported directly into html
> documents with the <tag>, e.g.,
> <img src="../cgi-bin/mimetex.cgi?f(x)=\int_{-\infty}^x~e^{-t^2}dt"
> border=0 align=absmiddle>
> without intermediate dvi-to-gif conversion, and without storing
> lots of little gif files, one file for each converted expression.
> This makes your html documents more readable and easily maintained.
> See
> http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html#examples
> for examples demonstrating mimeTeX's features and usage.
> MimeTeX is primarily intended to help maintain native html
> documents containing math, not primarily for latex2html-like tasks
> where you're maintaining native LaTeX documents that are later
> redistributed in several formats, including html. In this sense
> it's a kind of "lightweight" alternative to MathML, with the
> advantage that mimeTeX preserves LaTeX syntax.
> Similar non-MathML packages, like textogif and gladTeX,
> require setup procedures that use TeX to help generate external
> gif images of your equations, which are later included
> in your html document as it's being rendered. MimeTeX, as far
> as I know, is the only such non-MathML package that has its
> own built-in parser and rendering engine, entirely independent
> of TeX, and therefore requires no setup procedure or external
> images whatsoever. It renders realtime, on-the-fly images
> directly from LaTeX math expressions embedded in html documents.
Thanks for the update. I replaced mimetex.zip and README in the
support/mimetex
directory.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
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