Hi,
I've had another look at how to reasonably integrate mathematical (LaTeX)
equations in my documents with the additional constraint of getting them
into pdf through the dblatex backend as well as into (x)html.
my understanding is that right now the only route to do that is to use
latexmath passthrough blocks (restricted to what latexmathML can do) and
use xhtml output. while the dblatex/pdf output is fine, rendering in html
leaves things to be desired (and in fact currently it stopped working for
me at all for whatever reason the `latexmath' attribute is no longer
recognized...). it also prevents inclusion of equations into the html
output generated by asciidoc directly.
I now have had a look at MathJax (for the first time) and it seems that it
is quite powerful and that it should be quite easy to accommodate support
for it in the latexmath macro (AFAICS): essentially what would be needed is
to add something like
<script type="text/x-mathjax-config">
MathJax.Hub.Config({tex2jax: {inlineMath: [['$','$'], ['\\(','\\)']]}});
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="https://c328740.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML";>
</script>
to the <head> section and to just reduce things like latexmath:[$\sqrt(x)$]
in the source code to $\sqrt(x)$ in the asciidoc html (or a2x xhtml) output
(or some other delimiter like the `\(, \)' defined above, if more
suitable). the rest then would be taken care of by mathjax. in order not to
introduce incompatibility with the present behaviour the above might be
triggered by a new attribute `mathjax' or some such.
would this be feasible? or a bad idea?
I believe that improving support for mathematical typesetting could
increase asciidocs popularity in the corresponding communities.
thank you
joerg
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