Mathematics with koffice

[Ravikiran Rajagopal]

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[Cross-posting to kfm-devel as kHTML issues are discussed there.]

Hello,
  For those clamouring for a Texmacs-like KDE front-end, please look at 
FrontMan in kdenonbeta. It already supports Yacas, Macaulay2, Octave and 
Singular using a plugin architecture. I also have code for CoCoA (not used 
because of license reasons) and R (not yet committed, but will be soon).
  FrontMan's biggest problem is that I use KHTML to display the output and it 
does not speak MathML yet. Macaulay2 already supports MathML output and Yacas 
will follow. Since MathML is the universally accepted standard, all of these 
applications will, sooner or later, provide MathML output, I strongly 
believe. Once that happens, KEngineer can pretty print output too.
  I looked at the KFormula import filter for MathML and I realized that 
everything is converted internally into KFormula nodes (obviously). This 
makes it difficult to integrate that code into KHTML. Please see the thread 
starting at:
  http://lists.kde.org/?l=kfm-devel&m=104767790111061&w=2
Since many of the internal structures of the KFormula XML are similar to those 
of MathML, I wonder if the KFormula authors could provide MathML support for 
KHTML. This is just a question; please do not interpret it as a flame.
  To bring this post back on topic, I'd say that pick one back end (I like 
Octave) this is well-supported and integrate KEngineer well with that. Only 
casual users would work with this. Serious users are probably aware of the 
different packages mentioned, and would typically use the packages directly.

Regards,
Ravi
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