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| <h3>I have inserted a formula in a HTML document and now I cannot edit it. Why not?</h3> |
| <P>There is currently no standard for embedding mathematical formulas |
| in HTML documents. For this reason OpenOffice.org saves formulas in |
| HTML documents as bitmap pictures (in GIF format), which every |
| browser can display.</P> |
| <P>This has the consequence that you when you close and reopen your |
| document the formulas are no longer editable, because they cannot be |
| reconstructed from the bitmap.</P> |
| <P>This solution has a number of other problems, for example the |
| formulas doesn't look good when printed; in fact they look ugly.</P> |
| <P>A standard as to how MathML formulas can be embedded in HTML (or |
| XHTML) pages is expected to appear in the future. Since |
| OpenOffice.org can export HTML as well as MathML it would be |
| reasonable to expect that it will support this standard when it |
| arrives.</P> |
| <P>Another issue here, however, is that this also requires that |
| browsers support MathML. The Mozilla project is working on this, see |
| <A HREF="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/">http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/</A>.</P> |
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