Re: [dssslist] Integrating MathML with DocBook using openjade

[Ryan McDougall <ryan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for the explaination, but my XML skills are weak enough that I
don't follow it. Is there a link to a resource that can help me
understand further? Examples or tutorials or such?

MathML isnt a requirement for me, all I need to do is put mathematic
notation in DocBook in a text based format. Is there a simpler route,
say using TeX to put math in a DocBook document? If so, for the sake of
those that follow me, can you point me to a resource where I can learn
more about how.

Thank you for all your help!

On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 13:43 +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
> For the sake of future googlers, do you have a link to a XSL based
> solution?
> 
> The XSLT stylesheets for docbook are I think far more actively supported
> these days thn the dsssl stylesheets
> http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookXslStylesheets
> 
> for mathml it's a question about what you want to do with it, dsssl has
> limited support for mathematics, and my stylesheets targeted that,
> XSL-FO has no support for mathematics, mainly because the relevant
> working group thought (probably correctly)  that it would essentially
> just duplicate presentation mathml. It's legal just to put the mathml
> namespaced elements inline in the XSL:FO output of your
> stylesheet. Whether that works, depends whether your fo processor
> supports mathml, some do. If it doesn't you'll need to convert the
> mathml to something else. If you FO processor supports svg there are
> publicly availabel xslt stylesheets going from mathml to svg, or as a
> final fallback you would need to typeset the mathml fragments to images
> and then include the images in the FO if nothing else is supported by
> your system.
> 
> David