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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: XSL implementation of DBTeXMath
Michael Smith wrote: > ...I guess maybe you can infer that the DocBook TC intended the > contents of <alt> to be a *human-readable* text description, using ISO > entities for any math symbols that couldn't be represented with normal > characters. Yes, I know. But even with ISO entites and lots of parenthesis you aren't able to express many basic equations (matrixes, integrals, ...). Thus you are unable to create nonvisual alternative for equation and no-human can read it. If you use TeX, you can describe even complex equations and at least TeX-able people can understand it. Mathematical papers are red by mathematicans and they ususal know TeX. I know many people who would like use DocBook for his single-sourcing capabilities, but they also need an easy way (ie. not MathML;) of inserting equations. It is better to provide some common hack for them then forcing them to create their own hacks over and over again. > But maybe if you use <alt role="tex">, you could tweak the stylesheets This sounds reasonably for me. Stylesheets can interpret alt as TeX only when the role is set to TeX. Thus it will be always clear if there is plain-TeX version or TeX version of equation. Jirka -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://www.kosek.cz
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