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Subject: RE: FW: DOCBOOK: Equations.
> -----Original Message----- > / Phillip Shelton <shelton@usq.edu.au> was heard to say: > | I suppose I want to know Why this restriction. > > With respect to equations: > > 1. Equation and InformalEquation only contain graphics. That's because > there's no markup for the equation content in DocBook. It could be > argued that some equations would be fine in ASCII and we should have > allowed that. (But you're the first person ever to ask.) <Grin/> > You might be interested in the MathML Module which allows MML in the > content of equations and informal equations. I am having enough trouble getting my boss used to RCS and XML. I think I will wait a bit before adding MathML to the mix. > 2. Why does {inline}mediaobject not allow textobject as primary content? > Well, we did that because media objects are intended for graphics. > If all you wanted was text, you wouldn't need the mediaobject wrapper. > (In other words, we wanted to prevent the sort of escape hatch you're > trying to use :-) <frustration/> I then go and make a text file with the PCDATA I want to see, and use the <imagedata format="linespecific"> and import a non-graphic anyway. Much less hassle for me if I could just use PCDATA in an informalequation.
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