Re: XS: Ports --> math

[Paul Grosso <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:38 1997 05 23 -0400, Paul Prescod wrote:
>Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> i do.... you force me to munge our math to the MathML  DTD, which isnt
>> much fun. and you remove any chance of me affecting the math with a
>> style sheet. wotthehell wotthehell as archie used to say
>
>Math in SGML has been so difficult for such a long time that I suspect
>you are one of a rare few who have legacy to worry about. As I recall,
>even Arbortext uses TeX as their "native" equation format. 

Our equation editor (first released 10 years ago and, unfortunately,
untouched since then) uses (a 95% implementation of) the AAP math DTD
for its native format.  That is, its native format is SGML (albeit,
a fixed DTD).  (We use TeX as our underlying composition engine.)

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