Re: [docbook] Equations in DocBook--general practices

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi James,
If you haven't seen it, my book has a chapter on Math that summarizes 
several of the issues:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Math.html

Including MathML is fine if you have a toolchain that can process it.  The 
DocBook XSL stylesheets do not, because it is beyond the scope of what XSLT 
can do.  But the stylesheets can pass it through to a downstream processor 
such as Antenna House, which can format MathML.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


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From: "james_nola" <jfs59@earthlink.net>
To: <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 12:01 PM
Subject: [docbook] Equations in DocBook--general practices


>
> Hi All,
> I'm getting the impression that there are problems with various means of
> including equations in DocBook (or other XML) docs.
> For instance, I've talked to people who choose to rasterize equations and
> use the raster image in their docs rather than directly including the
> mathml.
>
> Is this a common practice?
> It seems that one would get more control, and probably better image 
> quality,
> uisng the mathml directly.
> So there must be some gotchas that drive some people to workarounds.
> Any insight appreciated.
>
> Forgive any redundancy between this and other posts: I've seen this issue
> discussed in bits and pieces, but haven't found enough in the 
> discusssions
> for a naieve reader like myself to draw some general conclusions.
>
> Thanks,
> James Smith
> New Orleans
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