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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Novice questions (repost)
- From: Ron Catterall <ron@catterall.net>
- To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:58:15 -0600
Title: Re: [docbook-apps] Novice questions
(repost)
>>> 3. At some time soon, I will have to start
caring about print as
well, i.e. PDF reps. Do you have any
suggestions of the
postprocessors that I should use (commercial
or free). Its
imperative that they can handle MathML.
<<<
As far as I know the only way to go direct from XML (or FO) to
PDF is using the Antenna House XSL Formatter with the Mathml add-in
(~$600 total as I remember) latest version is 4.1 with a patch
issued a few days ago.
http://www.antennahouse.com/
I haven't bought or used it, so I've no idea about how good or
complete it is. They claim to support MathML 2.0 (and also SVG
1.1)
Mike Smith has suggested that going via dblatex might be a free
option.
The following from the archive might have some useful
pointers
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:40:56 -0500
From: "Chris Chiasson"
<chris@chiasson.name>
Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Docbook + MathML "state of
the art"?
It would be nice to know if PTC's Arbortext implementation
actually
puts text characters into the output or if it vectorizes the fonts
(like SVG Math). Also, I am curious as to how it handles line
wrapping
for long expressions, especially ones that contain the
<mtable>
element (mtable is frequently used to align equations in
presentation
MathML). Finally, I wonder if there are any implementations capable
of
rendering content MathML (IE, you feed it just the math operations
you
want to represent, and the engine formats it accordingly). In a
way,
presentation MathML is to content MathML as HTML is to DocBook.
And yes, if you aren't talking PDF, then I know of at least one
application that can interpret content MathML correctly...
On 9/19/06, Michael(tm) Smith <smith@sideshowbarker.net>
wrote:
Ron Catterall <ron@catterall.net>,
2006-09-19 21:00 -0500:
> As far as I know there is NO adequate open source. You can
use
> MathType 5 (NOT free) to generate either mathml or an image, but
FO
> conversion of mathml to PDF is not free.
dblatex has relatively good support for MathML (claims to pass 657
of 712 tests in the W3C MathML test suite) -
http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/
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