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Subject: RE: FW: DOCBOOK: Equations.
Could you be more specific? Which math notations should be part of the core? What processing should be expected? It's a quagmire really. If you need something robust today, AFAIK, the best option is still to do math markup in LaTeX and do a more or less automatic generation of presentation formats (TIFF, PNG, EPS, whathaveyou). Whether you display equations as bitmap graphic or PS/EPS vector, there'll still be a problem with some uses of the document, because what is -- in the source -- highly structured have become an opaque blob in the presentation. You can't point to or from structural parts of the equation. Also, how do you align the style (font, size) of the body text and the style (font, size) of the equation? kind regards Peter Ring -----Original Message----- From: M. Wroth [mailto:mark@astrid.upland.ca.us] Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 3:25 PM To: Roman Suzi Cc: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: FW: DOCBOOK: Equations. I'm at least generally aware of MathML. But it's not part of the DocBook core, and I'd like support for equations to be part of the core, not an extension. I seem to be a minority opinion, though :-) At 05:17 PM 10/19/01 +0400, Roman Suzi wrote: >On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, M. Wroth wrote: > > > >With respect to equations: > > > > > >1. Equation and InformalEquation only contain graphics. That's because > > > there's no markup for the equation content in DocBook. It could be > > > argued that some equations would be fine in ASCII and we should have > > > allowed that. (But you're the first person ever to ask.) > > > > While I'd rather see some form of math markup become part of the DocBook > > core, allowing such equations as can be expressed in "text" would be > useful > > to me. (Since you asked :-) > > > > Mark B. Wroth > > <mark@astrid.upland.ca.us> > >There is MathML for that. probably it could be somehow >integrated with DocBook? > >Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi >-- > - Petrozavodsk - Karelia - Russia - mailto:rnd@onego.ru - > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription >manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl> Mark B. Wroth <mark@astrid.upland.ca.us> ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>
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