OK, so I realise nobody else gives a damn, but it's frustrating the hell 
out of me. All I want to do is convert a tiny, minute, small, simple, 
little, trivial, diminutive, insignificant little formula into MathML. I 
have just spent literally an hour trying to achieve this tiny task, and 
so far have failed miserably. I can't find any web page anywhere on the 
face of the Internet that will perform the trivial conversion required 
for me.

Wolfram have a page that will turn a Mathematica expression into MathML. 
But there isn't any way of writing the construct I want in Mathematica.

The first hit from Google is this:
http://www.orcca.on.ca/MathML/texmml/textomml.html
This is THE EXACT THING THAT I WANT. So imagine my utter rage that IT 
DOESN'T ACTUALLY WORK! >_<

I also found this:
http://www.maths.nottingham.ac.uk/personal/drw/lm.html
This works, BUT... I still cannot ACTUALLY VIEW THE MARKUP. I can make a 
web page, put some LaTeX markup in it, and load the page, and Firefox 
displays it correctly. However, it WILL NOT show me what MathML has 
actually been generated. It only shows me the source code it loaded from 
disk, not what it was ultimately transformed into.

At this point, it seems that the only option I have left open to me is 
to spend 4 days reading through the incomprehensible MathML spec 
document. All so that I can convert a piffling 3 characters into MathML...

(I wouldn't mind, but I don't even know if using MathML will actually 
fix the problem anyway!)

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