MathML
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MathML 2.0, a W3C Recommendation was released on 21 Feb 2001. A product of the W3C Math working group, MathML is a low-level specification for describing mathematics as a basis for machine to machine communication. It provides a much needed foundation for the inclusion of mathematical expressions in Web pages.
Hopefully it will also be implemented in eBook Readers in the future. It permits a program to compute a formula and thus the formula can be displayed in a format that is appropriate for the screen size. It can also be interpreted audibly to allow visually impaired persons to actually hear the formula.
Here is an example:
[edit] Converting MathML
ePUB is an emerging standard but it does not support MathML however it does support SVG. Now there is a free converter that will convert MathML to SVG.
