Re: [docbook-apps] Fwd: RE: [xep-support] ANNOUNCEMENT - RenderX moves to the Cloud

[Stefan Seefeld <stefan@seefeld.name>]

On 06/25/2012 11:12 AM, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> On 24.6.2012 19:54, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>
>> OK, thanks for the info. I'm happy to adjust the build rules to get this
>> working. So far I couldn't find any instructions on how this is done,
>> though. Do I need to process the original .fo file to substitute the
>> MathML by SVG, before I pass it along to the FO processor ?
>
> Yes, exactly. Also, sometimes additional adjustment in FO are necessary,
> there is XSLT provided in SVGMath distribution for it. Basically you
> will need workflow similar to:
>
> saxon -o x.fo doc.xml fo.xsl
> python c:\SVGMath-0.3.3\math2svg.py -c c:\SVGMath-0.3.3\svgmath.xml -o
> y.fo x.fo
> saxon -o z.fo y.fo c:\SVGMath-0.3.3\fo\adjustbase.xsl
> xep -quiet -fo z.fo -pdf doc.pdf

OK, thanks.

>
>
>> Also, what are the issues that makes the MML->SVG->PDF only
>> "acceptable", as opposed to "good" ? Does this affect all equations, or
>> just specific expressions ?
>
> Well, if one gets used to TeX in teenage then it is very hard to give
> "good" rank to any other math typesetting system. :-)

Hah, thanks. That gives me a good idea indeed of what reference is used
for "acceptable". :-)

    Stefan

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