This letter summarizes the current proposal for HTML-Math from Wolfram Research to the W3C HTML-Math Editorial Review Board. The current proposal benefits greatly from prior suggestions from and discussions with the other members of the board, for which we're very thankful.

This letter is by no means a complete, precise description of our proposal -- many details are left out (most importantly, the complete proposed standard character and operator dictionary and the precise set of transformation rules for expanding the standard linear syntax macros). These details will be supplied later if the general direction of this proposal is accepted. I think enough of our proposal is explained to give a good idea of its flavor and to serve as the basis for