XHTML/MathML Markup

• TeX4ht’s command line:

  mzlatex file "xhtml,mathplayer"

  <..file.tex..>

   \documentclass{article} \begin{document}
      A quadratic equation $ax^2 + bx + c = 0$
      with $a \ne 0$ has the following solution.
   
      $$ x={ -b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac} \over 2 a } $$
   \end{document}

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  <p class="indent" > A quadratic equation <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" ><mi >a</mi><msup><mrow ><mi >x</mi></mrow><mrow ><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup > <mo >+</mo> <mi >b</mi><mi >x</mi> <mo >+</mo> <mi >c</mi> <mo >=</mo> <mn>0</mn></math> with <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline" ><mi >a</mi><mo >&#x2260;</mo><mn>0</mn></math> has the following solution. </p>

  <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block" > <mi >x</mi> <mo >=</mo><mfrac><mrow> <mo >&#x2212;</mo><mi >b</mi> <mo >&#x00B1;</mo><msqrt><mrow><msup><mrow ><mi >b</mi></mrow><mrow ><mn>2</mn> </mrow> </msup > <mo >&#x2212;</mo> <mn>4</mn><mi >a</mi><mi >c</mi></mrow></msqrt></mrow> <mrow><mn>2</mn><mi >a</mi></mrow></mfrac> </math>

• The given Speaker program will talk just the content and ignore the markup.

  java -classpath ".;kjsapi.jar" Speaker file.xht

  A quadratic equation ax2+bx+c=0 with a&#x2260;0 has the following solution. x = &#x2212; b &#x00B1; b 2 &#x2212; 4 a c 2 a

  A quadratic equation $a{x}^2+bx+c=0$ with $a\ne 0$ has the following solution.

  $$x=\frac{-b\pm \sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}$$

• XHTML and MathML provide low-level logical annotation to content—they do not provide aural clues.