TeX math in DocBook

["John W. Shipman" <john@nmt.edu>]

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Stefano Sabatini wrote:

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| Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala@poste.it> wrote on Wed, 9 May
| 2007 11:38:19 +0200:
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| I would like to avoid to use MathML, due to its need for a graphical
| editor, so using the compact tex notation
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I've been trying for some time to find a way to get TeX to output
scalable PDFs that work within DocBook.

I finally worked out a rather kludgey route that works.
Equations in TeX or LaTeX can be included either as block
elements or as inlines.  It doesn't use MathML or SVG, and it
works fine with XEP.  Equations are scalable in the PDF output,
but rasterized in the HTML output.

This particular toolchain may be documented somewhere, but I
couldn't find it easily in one place.

The procedure is described here:

    http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/docbook43/tex-math.html

This is a section of the documentation for our local DocBook
toolchain.  That documentation starts here:

    http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/docbook43/

This documentation is intended only for our local users; your
site may or may not have the necessary installs.  If you would
like to see how we've customized the style sheets, we have our
customization layer up in literate-programming form here:

    http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/doc/docbook43/ims/

Best regards,
John Shipman (john@nmt.edu), Applications Specialist, NM Tech Computer Center,
Speare 119, Socorro, NM 87801, (505) 835-5950, http://www.nmt.edu/~john
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