What is WWdoc

WW Document (WWdoc) is a specification using ASCII text values without embedded objects to describe mathematical content in both a content and presentation manor. As nearly all document editing programs (such as TeX, Word Document, ASCII, QuarkXpress, and Unicode) can support inline ASCII, there is no information lost by moving this information to any number of other formats. By carefully following a standard, an equation can be moved from proprietary formats such as MathType, Equation Editor, or other graphical and OLE objects into this ASCII format, as well as ASCII-to-ASCII formats such as TeX, MathML, or any other standard with ordered pairs and rules. The WWdoc 5.0 standard is the latest release of this language, and is developed by the MonarchSuite development team.

Formatting

By using a non-proprietary format, WWdoc has become the language that is the basis of all major math equation source conversions. Conversions have already been written for popular standards such as MathML 2.0, TeX and LaTeX, MTEF 4.0, and previous versions of WWdoc. There are also many indistinguishable direct links to languages such as XML and SGML, Nemeth (math for Braille), and commercial formats that have yet to be designed.

Formatting of WWdoc is readable and user friendly. It is fully and consistently delimited, and reads logically from left-to-right. Its character display library has a direct link to postscript fonts that have been tested to film and found worthy of the publishing industry.

Theory Behind WWdoc

By using a categorical approach, equations can contain both content and display information simultaneously, without redundant coding. For example, there are ten possible ways of coding a radical: each of the ten ways is similar by being in a radical category, telling any parsing application of a square root. Each of the ten ways is different in that each radical contains different display information, such as indexes, height, or fraction sizing. By using this methodology, WWdoc becomes readable and understandable by the user, while powerful and informative to any application.