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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: docbook vs latex
Ramon Casellas wrote: > I see your point... but I would not be against adding them if enough > people would like to see them added, and we are talking about ~10 new > elements that may be used (IMHO) much more than some of the hundreds of > existing elements. Anyway, equation and inlineequation are already there > and in computer science, maths are everywere. Some colleagues around here > are telling me they would write their dissertations in docbook if there > was more math support (graph theory, algorithms, heuristics...) I think > that DocBook is richer than just for software documentation: "DocBook is a > document type definition (DTD) in SGML and XML. It is particularly well > suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it > is by no means limited to these applications).", but once again, there are > lots of people more capable than I am to decide if it may be interesting > to add them or not. And I respect their choice. I insist, I see your > point. :) Anyway, you can submit RFE at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=384107&group_id=21935&func=browse that's the way if you want some new elements/attributes added to DocBook. > Agreed. In fact, I started some kind of MathML -> LaTeX using XSLT... but > until then....<latex>\begin{equation}</latex> is a temporary hack that I > needed. :) I know. I used it once, but then I realized that I'm unable to type such a lot of equations in MathML, so I used similar trick to bypass TeX code directly from DocBook source to formatter. Jirka -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://www.kosek.cz
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