Subject: Re: Formatting mathematics From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 06:04:02 +0000 |
> A colleague and I are writing an engineering text, heavy on figures > and mathematics. We have a few sample chapters done in LaTeX, and > need to decide whether to continue with that or switch to SGML. My > co-author is willing to learn to mark up text in either, but not both. > I'd like to use DocBook so we can generate both HTML and print > versions. I'm certain that just about everyone on the list has more experience than I on this, but I was suprised to discover that what I had thought would be the preferred route to typeset output, TeX, did not work for me. A couple of reasons for this: 1) TeX input seems to be the weakest of the supported backends. Tables do not work, at least with the combination of tools I'm using. I get large amounts of warning messages, and TeX shuts down after processing ~120 pages, saying that an internal hash table has reached a limit. afaik, there is no workaround other than to make the document smaller. 2) but even if this weren't the case, for better typeset output you will probably want to go through the document and clean a few things up. For example, you will probably want to adjust a few page breaks and figure positions to get things a bit prettier. The RTF output seems to be better suited to this, although not perfect. I have not exercised the math typesetting features, so can't comment on that. However, I will say that I am happy with the choice to use jade/DocBook. We have good quality docs in both html and postscript for the PostgreSQL database project using these tools. btw, I used Applixware for the RTF massaging... - Tom DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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