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Originally Posted by fjtorres
MathML is merely a way to get them closer to it.
But even with MathML they won't be satisfied.
What is really needed is a wholly separate format for academia instead of trying to bloat up a trade publishing spec.
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I'm not so certain about that. There are a number of commercial and open source formats that already do that.
I would think that there are two goals to MathML: one is to create device independent markup for formal languages. The second is this whole idea of a semantic web, or encoding things in a way that reflects what it means. Software may be able to manipulate that encoded information in the ways that you're suggesting, but that is up to the tools accessing that information, and not a part of the specification.