equations in HTML  Paul Topping (ptopping@lightside.com) Mon, 12
Sep 94 12:13 PDT  Message-Id:
<m0qkGot-000FVHC@covina.lightside.com> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 94
12:13 PDT To: www-html@www0.cern.ch From: ptopping@lightside.com
(Paul Topping) Subject: equations in HTML   In what I think is
the latest HTML 2.0 specification, support for math has
evidently been dropped due to lack of consensus on how math
should be represented. Instead, HTML creators will have to use
an Image Element. This will be some kind of bitmap.
Unfortunately, the <img...> tag does not give sufficient
alignment control to adequately do the job. Equations,
especially those that are likely to be placed in-line (as
opposed to those in their own paragraph), have a natural
baseline. For                        |     b - c |    Here is an
equation:|a + -------|.                        |       2   |  In
this equation, the baseline of "a" should align with the
surrounding text. Unfortunately, the <img...> tag allows only
top, middle, or bottom alignment.