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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Source of Docbook + MathML -> PDF examples?
How are you creating your math? I'm using a computer algebra system (which is what I use to generate multiple forms of the same equation). The reason I ask is that if you don't use Mathematica or if you don't run it on 64 bit Gentoo, then you probably won't experience the same incompatibilities that I have. Even if you do use a proprietary XSL-FO processor, you can always switch back to FOP once FOP improves enough. On 9/19/06, Jon Leech <jon@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 02:02:13PM -0500, Chris Chiasson wrote: > > One free way to go from MathML to pdf is via SVG Math, a python > > script. I intended to use this script to make my inline math have the > > correct baseline shift, but I haven't done anything with it yet. Do > > you really intend to use FOP instead of XEP or Arbortext E3? I hope > > you like full page width tables. > > I'm not attached to FOP, it just seems to be what I see written > about more than anything else as a PDF generator. But we do need a tool > that runs on both Windows and Linux, and is free, or at least cheap, for > users in our standards group. > > I have found the Docbook toolchain issue very hard to get my head > around - much more so than Docbook itself. There are many different > options, all of them have partisans, it's hard to tell what will support > the particular set of features we're likely to use, both the format and > the tools are evolving all the time... confusing. > > > What I currently do for PDFs with math is to generate an EPS form of > > the equation. If it is an inline equation (where an EPS will not give > > the correct baseline shift without some extra doing), I check to see > > if the math can be represented as a string of characters with > > superscripts and subscripts. If so, then I output the DocBook markup > > for the string. If it is more complicated than that, I currently go > > with the EPS. > > > > I generate it all automatically (including the MathML, the EPSs, the > > conditional formatting, etc). It doesn't look bad when I use the > > personal edition of XEP. > > I'll take a look at it, but their pricing model may be out of the > question for us - and I'm reluctant to bind us to a proprietary tool, as > well. One reason I've been pushing Docbook in our group is that it's an > open and flexible alternative to Word / Framemaker / etc. > > Thanks for the suggestions! Hopefully someone has solved the > imbedded math problem in a robust way we can leverage. If not we may > have little choice but to stay with our current melange of formats, at > least until the Docbook tools get better. I'm not going to have much > luck convincing someone who's been editing an API specification in Word > that he now has to run a build process on two different operating > systems, simply to get a publishable document with some equations in it. > > Jon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-help@lists.oasis-open.org > > -- http://chris.chiasson.name/
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