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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: e 2.71828
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:33:00AM -0500, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > I have a need to include the mathematical constant e, 2.71828..., the > base of the natural logarithms, in a book I'm writing. According to > the Unicode folks, they have no special character for this and none > is needed. I should just use the normal ASCII e. That's simple enough. > > In typesetting a mathematical constant of this nature is normally > italicized so it's not just plain text. How should I represent this > in DocBook? > > <inlineequation>e</inlineequation> is not valid because the > inlineequation element can't contain PCDATA. > > The best I can figure is > > <inlineequation> > <inlinemediaobject> > <textobject> > <phrase>e</phrase> > </textobject> > </inlinemediaobject> > </inlineequation> > > which really seems excessively complicated. Couldn't you just define an entity that would include all that markup for you without all the noise? > Going to MathML seems > even worse. Is this really the best I can do? > -- > > +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ > | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer | > +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ > | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | > | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/bible2/ | > | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | > +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ > | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | > | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | > +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ -- Zack Brown
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