[Tutor] LaTeX output

[Danny Yoo]

On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Lloyd Hugh Allen wrote:

> What I want is: I am a math teacher, and would like to write some test
> generating / administering programs. I could do this by using lots of
> parentheses and "raised to the 1/2"s, but my HS students don't
> necessarily translate "5^(1/2)" (in their TI notation) as "sqrt(5)"
> automatically in their heads. I want to have properly notated
> mathematical text on the screen. LaTeX is what I understand to be the
> appropriate tool for that task.

Hmmm... if HTML is an acceptable output format, you may want to see if the
latex2html utitity might help:

    http://www.latex2html.org/

It might be possible to write a quick math previewer using latex2html with
Python.

Good luck!