Re: Math in DocBook (was Re: TeX output)

Subject: Re: Math in DocBook (was Re: TeX output)
From: Norman Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 24 Jul 2000 12:58:01 -0400
/ MARK.WROTH@xxxxxxxxxxx (Wroth, Mark) was heard to say:
| DC> Norm and I have from time to time discussed mml suport in docbook.
| DC> Although I am ashamed to admit on dsssl list that this has mainly been in
| DC> the context of XSL and/or xmltex rather than dsssl.

There's now beta support for it in the XML version of DocBook at

  http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/mathml/

| to choose an appropriate method -- MathML looks attractive, but if
| DocBook standardized on some other mathematics markup, I'd probably
| use it.

That seems highly unlikely. MathML is the way to go, I think.

| DC> The MathML DTD as written heavily depends on a non standard (for SGML)
| DC> SGMl declaration, it has no "- -" omittag specifications, and there are
| DC> several repeated true|false enumerated attribute types.

Essentially, it's XML.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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