Re: upload (new version of) mimetex.zip to ftp.dante.de

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.

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  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