Re: Idea to support math in HTML output

[Karl Berry]

Hi Oliver and Gavin and all,

    support for a program called tex2ht, but I've never used it.

tex4ht

    > - I have to find a way to bundle / integrate / use the other perl module
    > LaTeXML into Texinfo.

LaTeXML (http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML) is a fantastic program, but it is
huge -- 7MB, and that does not count the required XML::LibXML and libxml
and lots more painful, unportable, system/version-dependent stuff.  Thus
I doubt it is feasible or desirable to include it in Texinfo.  Rather,
makeinfo could check if it is installed when it is needed (many Texinfo
documents don't use @math after all), and use it/fall back/whatever.

I wonder about using mathjax (and conditionally incorporating it in the
HTML output, if desired).  The effort to make @math{} strings usable by
MathJax or by LaTeXML seems similar.

    e. g., with AsciiMath, which is better to read than the TeX math code. [5]

"Better to read" ... that is highly debatable :).  
Not that it matters now.  -k