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Re: [docbook-apps] Problems using PassiveTeX/JadeTeX for equations
- From: Justus dot Piater at ULg dot ac dot be (Justus H. Piater)
- To: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:08:48 +0200
- Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Problems using PassiveTeX/JadeTeX for equations
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Marco Stolpe <x25ugip1@freenet.de> wrote on Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:07:27
+0200:
> PassiveTeX (TeXLive 7 distribution).
>
> I soon discovered that PassiveTeX doesn't work.
PassiveTeX is quite delicate to get up and running. I suggest you make
sure you have the latest xmltex and the latest passivetex from
Sebastian Rahtz' site, and install them manually if necessary.
> Am I right that version 4.3 of DocBook and the 1.65.1 stylesheets
> don't work together with PassiveTeX? What versions would I have to use
> if I wanted to use PassiveTeX?
To the (great) extent that backward compatibility is maintained
between DocBook versions, you can use the 1.65.1 stylesheets with any
(later) version of DocBook. I use DocBook 4.3 with 1.65.1 with a
customization layer that, among other things, adds support for recent
additions to DocBook (<code> etc.).
This works for me, including equations.
FYI, I code my math as follows:
<informalequation>
<mediaobject>
<textobject role="tex">
<phrase><![CDATA[
\pi_i = P(X_0 = s_i)
]]></phrase>
</textobject>
<textobject role="html">
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
href="texmath-pii.xml"/>
</textobject>
</mediaobject>
</informalequation>
where the file "texmath-pii.xml" contains a MathML representation that
is generated automatically from the TeX math using ttm
(http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/mml/) plus some perl hackery.
Justus
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