Re: [docbook-apps] Novice questions (repost)

[Ron Catterall <ron@catterall.net>]

Title: Re: [docbook-apps] Novice questions (repost)

>>>  3. At some time soon, I will have to start caring about print as
     well, i.e. PDF reps. Do you have any suggestions of the
     postprocessors that I should use (commercial or free). Its
     imperative that they can handle MathML.

<<<

As far as I know the only way to go direct from XML (or FO) to PDF is using the Antenna House XSL Formatter with the Mathml add-in (~$600 total as I remember)  latest version is 4.1 with a patch issued a few days ago.

http://www.antennahouse.com/

I haven't bought or used it, so I've no idea about how good or complete it is.  They claim to support MathML 2.0 (and also SVG 1.1)

Mike Smith has suggested that going via dblatex might be a free option.

The following from the archive might have some useful pointers

Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:40:56 -0500

From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris@chiasson.name>

Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org

Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Docbook + MathML "state of the art"?

It would be nice to know if PTC's Arbortext implementation actually
puts text characters into the output or if it vectorizes the fonts
(like SVG Math). Also, I am curious as to how it handles line wrapping
for long expressions, especially ones that contain the <mtable>
element (mtable is frequently used to align equations in presentation
MathML). Finally, I wonder if there are any implementations capable of
rendering content MathML (IE, you feed it just the math operations you
want to represent, and the engine formats it accordingly). In a way,
presentation MathML is to content MathML as HTML is to DocBook.

And yes, if you aren't talking PDF, then I know of at least one
application that can interpret content MathML correctly...

On 9/19/06, Michael(tm) Smith <smith@sideshowbarker.net> wrote:

> Ron Catterall <ron@catterall.net>,
> 2006-09-19 21:00 -0500:
>
> > As far as I know there is NO adequate open source.  You can
> use
> > MathType 5 (NOT free) to generate either mathml or an image, but
> FO
> > conversion of mathml to PDF is not free.
>
> dblatex has relatively good support for MathML (claims to pass 657
> of 712 tests in the W3C MathML test suite) -
>  
> http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/

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