Turning mathematical formulae into plain text (searchability and <title> element)

skalee commented 4 years ago

Mathematical formulas can appear in designations, for example:

function of n variables (IEV 103-01-06)
p-fractile (IEV 103-08-14)
∅ (ISO TC211 2158) — actually it's abbreviation entry, but eventually should be promoted to symbolic designation

This raises at least two following problems:

MathML cannot appear inside of <title> element
MathML is not properly searchable by our site search

We need to find the best way to turn mathematical formulas to raw text, so that they can appear in <title> element and that they are searchable. Perhaps converting MathML to AsciiMath will suit our needs. In fact, in all three above cases the result will be perfect, i.e. function of n variables, p-fractile, ∅. That said, I'm not sure if this will hold true for more complicated formulas, or for non-latin scripts.

TODO

[x] Decide what to do
[x] Create an issue for each feature to fix

ronaldtse commented 4 years ago

@skalee Let's do AsciiMath for the title element then. Don't seem there is an alternative here.

skalee commented 4 years ago

And regarding search, let's also do AsciiMath for now. We will see if this is enough, and imporve later, if needed.

skalee commented 4 years ago

Closing in favour of specific issues (#118, #119).

geolexica / geolexica-server

Turning mathematical formulae into plain text (searchability and <title> element) #112

TODO