Subject: RE: Formatting mathematics (in The DSSSList Digest V1 #263) From: MARK.WROTH@xxxxxxxxxxx (WROTH, MARK B) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 07:06:56 -0800 |
> "D. Michael McFarland" <mcfarlan@xxxxxxxx> > asked > 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. > > My biggest concern is support for mathematics, especially via jadetex. > Searching the archive turned up a few threads, about a year old, from > which I gather this is a developing area. Could someone please bring > me up to date on the state of the art? > A question which I cannot answer (although I look forward to the group's response). However, just to confuse the issue, may I point out that there exists LaTeX2HTML? While I have not used it enough to comment, if your concern is getting both printed and HTML output, it appears to make LaTeX a viable solution, even for texts including significant mathematics (which is going to be a problem no matter what the markup language due to the limitations of HTML). LaTeX2HTML appears to be mirrored at the CTAN sites; there is an online discussion of the sites providing it at http://www-dsed.llnl.gov/files/programs/unix/latex2html/manual/Snode1.ht ml#sec:sup. The manual is at http://www-dsed.llnl.gov/files/programs/unix/latex2html/manual/, which may be useful in deciding whether to go further or not. (How do I happen to know? I'm looking at a parallel problem, complicated by the fact that my project is basically a large literate program. :-) DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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