Re: [docbook] Bold and italic type for mathematics

Warren, thanks again. I'm certainly at that stage of the conversion work where I'm starting to wonder how much sense what I'm doing makes. Perhaps I should try to set the next issue in TeX.

According to inlineequation.html, inlineequation can't have CDATA children. xmllint certainly complains…

Stephen

2008/9/12 Warren Young <warren@etr-usa.com>

Stephen Taylor wrote:

* Math phrases occur in the body text of articles, as in references

to a value n. I'm converting a production process which has been
HTML>Word>PDF to DocBook>PDF&HTML. So my markup has gone from
<i>n</i> to
<inlineequation><mathphrase>n</mathphrase></inlineequation>.

I don't see why you need both tags. Just set up a rule to style inlineequation as well.

* Though I've done it for the time being, it isn't my aim to set all

Common Math Notation in italic type, only specific terms

You shouldn't look to DocBook as a replacement for TeX, InDesign, or even FrameMaker. (It's pretty close in spirit to FrameMaker, yet a gulf still separates them.)

DocBook works best for rigidly-formatted documents, especially when you need multiple output formats from a single source that all look good. If you need one output and it must look excellent, don't expect DocBook to do that for you. There's still no substitute for a human typesetter going over the galleys to tweak things.

If you like, you can write in DocBook, output to some intermediary format, tweak there, and go to press from that.

italic glyphs for Greeks and braces look a little off.)

Surely that's just a matter of the font you've chosen? Granted, you don't get a huge selection to play with in HTML, but if you output to PDF instead, you can get quite a bit of difference in the look with a little tweaking in the customization layer.

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