Re: [docbook] LaTeX math inside docbook, on-the-fly MathML conversion?

[Alexey Neyman <stilor@att.net>]

On 01/29/2015 12:25 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> > On Jan 29, 2015, at 12:46 PM, Marco Giebel <marco-giebel@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > These formulas should be interpreted on the fly to MathML
> Are you sure you want to prevent the correct viewing of your document in stock versions of Chrome, IE, and Opera?
>
>      http://caniuse.com/#search=mathml
>
> Yes, I know there are browser plugins and hacks like MathJax that can fix this, but…ech.
>
> If you’re also targeting PDF, most XSL-FO processors don’t support MathML, either.  Last time I checked, only Antenna House did.  I see that they have included it in the commercial version, but it’s still a paid add-on for the Lite version:
>
>      http://www.antennahouse.com/product/mathml.htm

I found this quite useful for PDF output:

http://pmml2svg.sourceforge.net/

This XSL stylesheet converts MathML to SVG. SVG can be then inserted 
into the XSL-FO for PDF output or converted to PNG for HTML.

If you want to use inline formulas, you'd need a small hack to pass the 
baseline shift generated by pMML2SVG (which is stored in the generated 
SVG) into the XSL-FO attribute. I have a patch for that somewhere; I'll 
dig it up if you're interested.

Regards,
Alexey.

> When I created the f/Calc manual, I built a bit of Makefile hackery to turn LaTeX fragments into PNG for the HTML version and PDF for insertion into the PDF version by the XSL-FO processor:
>
>      http://fcalc.net/manual/
>      http://fcalc.net/manual.pdf
>
> I think the result is fairly seamless, and it works on all browsers, going back to ancient days.
>
> If you want, I can dig up the recipe.  It’s simple enough to be quickly reinvented.  I’d post it now, but I don’t have the code on hand where I am now.
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