Short Take: Standards group recommends math language

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has issued a proposed recommendation for Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 2.0. MathML can be used to encode mathematical notations and content on the Web through Extensible Markup Language (XML)--just as HTML enables text and images to be served, received and processed online. The W3C is soliciting comments on the proposal until Feb. 5.