RE: Formatting mathematics

[s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sebastian Rahtz)]

 > powerful and flexible, but (unlike TeX/LaTex, imho) actually fun to use.
gasp! heresy!

 > In short, even if you go with LaTex, you're better off sticking the
 > LaTeX code in a DSSSL sheet and marking up your text in SGML.  The extra
 > effort would be insignificant imho.
i don't really see what you suggest. you mean write an _ad hoc_ SGML to
LaTeX converter in DSSSL using the SGML backend of Jade, but with no
SGML? sure, would work, but it would not really be using DSSSL. if you
want to write an SGML to LaTeX converter, one of the more
`traditional' tools would surely be easier. I use David Megginson's
sgmlspl cos its so simple to use and easy and free....

 > A general question for the world at large: is anybody working on a
 > stylesheet for MathML?  Or extending it?  I'm particularly interested in
 > using it to encode Z.
a style sheet for non-semantic mathml should be quite easy. but since
RTF maths is rudimentary, its fairly academic for all them thar
Docbook/RTF users

sebastian


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