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RE: FW: Equations.
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- Subject: RE: FW: DOCBOOK: Equations.
- From: Phillip Shelton <shelton at usq dot edu dot au>
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:30:11 +1000
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> -----Original Message-----
> It's a quagmire really. If you need something robust today,
> AFAIK, the best
> option is still to do math markup in latex and do a more or
> less automatic
> generation of presentation formats (TIFF, PNG, EPS, whathaveyou).
But I am a little wary of having lots of (it could be some 30-50) files of
size 16-600bytes on a system with 1K blocks as its smallest file storage
unit. That is 30+K for what might only be 2K of real data, and that is
before I have to go and put all this into RCS.
> Whether you display equations as bitmap graphic or PS/EPS
> vector, there'll
> still be a problem with some uses of the document, because
> what is -- in the
> source -- highly structured have become an opaque blob in the
> presentation.
> You can't point to or from structural parts of the equation.
> Also, how do
> you align the style (font, size) of the body text and the
> style (font, size)
> of the equation?
Which is why we want the mark-up. Though, you could use the present
textobject for the links as long as you did not mind the lack of automatic
propagation of changes.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: M. Wroth [mailto:mark@astrid.upland.ca.us]
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 3:25 PM
> To: Roman Suzi
> Cc: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: FW: DOCBOOK: Equations.
>
>
> I'm at least generally aware of MathML. But it's not part of
> the DocBook
> core, and I'd like support for equations to be part of the
> core, not an
> extension.
>
> I seem to be a minority opinion, though :-)
There is at least two of us!
Phill
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