P. S.: Post Scriptum

In those last days the blog has been up and down, on and off, all the time. It was my fault. I was trying to perfection something that was already ok. I was trying to use the mathml plugin. It is a pretty plugin, and provided that you only post math formulas, one formula per line, and nothing else; provided that everybody looks at them with your font unabled firefox last generation; provided that no one ever, under any circumstance (I’nt not kidding folks !) opens the blog with an I.E. … then it does pretty graphic which seem very very similar to the professional formula in professionist texts. Albeit generally less correct.

The fact is that this bloody plugin transform your html page into an xml page. So anything which is not ok, any little fart of any other plugin, any error you might have done 15 monts ago, any “com’on who bothers now”, “who will notice”, will come back and hunt you.

In my case I had to go through all the posts to clean them. Clean the <p> and the </p>; clean the <div> and the … yes you got it, the </div> clean the *gasp* <em> opened in one paragraph, and closed in another! All this just to make sure that I could read the 3 forumula (three) that I wrote in 15 months of blogging in a pretty format. Then today, as I was chatting with a friend bragging about my new found closeness with maths symbols, I discovered in horror that not only they were not rendered correctly on his machine (…of course, the ignorant did not have the pretty fonts), but no automatic message was telling him where to get the font, and IE was committing suicide upon sight of my page. That was too much, I inserted back the errors, undo my previous changes, and now I am going to disinstall mathml. I might make a pic of the formula and insert that instead, or make a small php popup page. But no Math Ml for this blog.

Sorry folks!
Thank you Math Ml,
it was nice until it lasted.

Pietro