Equations in DocBook--general practices

[james_nola]

Hi All,
I'm getting the impression that there are problems with various means of including equations in DocBook (or other XML) docs.
For instance, I've talked to people who choose to rasterize equations and use the raster image in their docs rather than directly including the mathml.

Is this a common practice?
It seems that one would get more control, and probably better image quality, uisng the mathml directly.
So there must be some gotchas that drive some people to workarounds.
Any insight appreciated.

Forgive any redundancy between this and other posts: I've seen this issue discussed in bits and pieces, but haven't found enough in the discusssions for a naieve reader like myself to draw some general conclusions.

Thanks,
James Smith
New Orleans

[Bob Stayton]

Hi James,
If you haven't seen it, my book has a chapter on Math that summarizes
several of the issues:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Math.html

Including MathML is fine if you have a toolchain that can process it.  The
DocBook XSL stylesheets do not, because it is beyond the scope of what XSLT
can do.  But the stylesheets can pass it through to a downstream processor
such as Antenna House, which can format MathML.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@...


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Subject: [docbook] Equations in DocBook--general practices

>
> Hi All,
> I'm getting the impression that there are problems with various means of
> including equations in DocBook (or other XML) docs.
> For instance, I've talked to people who choose to rasterize equations and
> use the raster image in their docs rather than directly including the
> mathml.
>
> Is this a common practice?
> It seems that one would get more control, and probably better image
> quality,
> uisng the mathml directly.
> So there must be some gotchas that drive some people to workarounds.
> Any insight appreciated.
>
> Forgive any redundancy between this and other posts: I've seen this issue
> discussed in bits and pieces, but haven't found enough in the
> discusssions
> for a naieve reader like myself to draw some general conclusions.
>
> Thanks,
> James Smith
> New Orleans
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[Mauritz Jeanson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Stayton
>
> Hi James,
> If you haven't seen it, my book has a chapter on Math that summarizes
> several of the issues:
>
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Math.html
>
> Including MathML is fine if you have a toolchain that can
> process it.  The
> DocBook XSL stylesheets do not, because it is beyond the
> scope of what XSLT
> can do.  But the stylesheets can pass it through to a
> downstream processor
> such as Antenna House, which can format MathML.

FOP 0.94 with the JEuclid plugin seems to do a decent job of rendering
MathML as well.

/MJ



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[nico-9]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:20:17 -0800, Bob Stayton <bobs@...> wrote:

> Hi James,
> If you haven't seen it, my book has a chapter on Math that summarizes  
> several of the issues:
>
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Math.html
>
> Including MathML is fine if you have a toolchain that can process it.  
> The DocBook XSL stylesheets do not, because it is beyond the scope of  
> what XSLT can do.  But the stylesheets can pass it through to a  
> downstream processor such as Antenna House, which can format MathML.

dblatex can also handle MathML equations.

Regards,
Bg

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