AsciiMath is a text-based grammar for mathematics. It is designed to be close to standard mathematical notation, easy-to-read and easy-to-type.
It isn’t as comprehensive as MathML or TeX, but it’s useful for data entry because symbols attempt to mimic in text what they
look like rendered, like oo for ∞. It often results in more concise expressions.
AsciiMath can be used in media fragments with the media type text/asciimath and inline labels asciimath.
PageSeeder supports AsciiMath in both Word and PDF by first converting it to MathML at the beginning of the publish process.
Microsoft Word supports OMML (Office Math Markup Language), so MathML is converted to OMML when exporting to a Word document. When publishing to PDF, PageSeeder uses JEuclid to render MathML.
The PageSeeder user manual
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