MathML - Cleared for Take-off?

For more than 20 years, thanks to the energy and genius of Donald Knuth, authors have been able to turn themselves into professional compositors overnight. The easy-to-learn mark-up of Plain TeX and its dialects enables scientists to typeset technical documents to the highest standards produced by the traditional methods of hot metal type...MathML is a markup language which gives content and presentation functionality to web browsers. The article reflects on the balance between commercial interests and catering for a small maths user base of web browser developers, the MathML presentation and authoring…