MathTran - Online translation of mathematical content

We've got a wiki!

We've got a wiki which is, of course, MathTran enabled. We've used MediaWiki, which is the wiki used by Wikipedia.

We've installed MathTran with a couple of nice features

Math images are properly placed on the baseline.
Instant preview when editing math formulas (network permitting).

We've also solved the technical problems for resizing images when the web page resizes, and plan to put that in the next release.

So why not visit the wiki and perhaps even add some content.

New! TeX tips

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This is an example of TeX tips. Try clicking on one of the boxed images below. The rendered image and the TeX log will appear below the data entry form. To learn more, go to the TeX tips home page. $tex:1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + \ldots + 1/2^n$ $tex:\sum_0^n 2^{-n}$ $tex:\sum_0^\infty x^n/n!$ $tex:\sum_0^\infty (-1)^nx^n/n!$ $tex:\sum_0^\infty x^n/n$

New! Putting math on your webpage with MathTran

It's now quick and easy to put high-quality (typeset by TeX) mathematical bitmaps on your web pages. First, put the magic URL
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.mathtran.org/js/mathtran.js"></script>
in the HEAD of your web page.

Next, to get in your web page, put <img alt="tex:a^2+b^2=c^2"> in its HTML. That's all you need to do. More complicated equations are done in the same way, of course. MathTran will vertically align the formula for you, like this $tex:\int_0^1 x\, dx$ and this $tex:{}^2$

The best way to learn how to do this is to create your own TeX tips page. After you've written your web page, you might want to replace the dynamic images with static ones. To do this, you can use our translation web service.

New! Plans to the end of July

Funding for MathTran will stop at the end of July 2007. We intend to make two releases between now and then, the first in early July, and the second in late July. To learn more about what we intend to do, you can read our plans.

TeX as a web service

About MathTran

This website will provide translation of mathematical content, from TeX to MathML and vice-versa, and to graphics formats, as a web service. The software that provides this service is open source, and can be downloaded and installed on your own web-server or desktop machine (Unix/Linux only at present).

We are about halfway through the project, and now have TeX running as a daemon, providing genuine TeX typesetting as a web service. Please click on [Render] above to see it work. We are also provide translation of TeX mathematics to images, for use on web pages. Our next major priority is translation to and from MathML.

MathTran is being developed at The Open University (the U K's leading provider of distance learning) and is funded by JISC (a UK funding body that supports innovation in education and research IT) and the O U. The project thanks JISC and the OU for their support.