On 29 April 2014 22:53, j. van den hoff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:29:53 +0200, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 29 April 2014 21:16, jvdh <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> 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 its been done several times before, for example here >> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.text.formats.asciidoc/3761 and other >> earlier examples, but nobody has actually submitted it. Asciidoc is > > > ah yes, thank you. that sounds very similar to what I have in mind. > > >> now in github https://github.com/asciidoc/asciidoc so you can submit a >> pull request. Don't forget to do the documentation though :) > > > pull request in git(hub?)-speak meaning exactly what (not a git fanboy/user > here: I liked the previous choice (mercurial) much more)? > I presume you propose that I modify the asciidoc source code myself? I'd > rather would avoid that (zero experience with python, zero experience with > css-stuff as well...). if everything else fails I might try to do this but > would prefer if someone in the know looks into this. my suspicion > is that it would be very easy for someone from the "core group" (inject a > bit of stuff in the <head> section and remove the passthrough block > indicator/delimiters around the LaTeX equations: probably not a big deal if > you know you way around the source code). if that definitely would not be an > option I'd appreciate some advice, which files would need modification?
Well, since Stuarts retirement there is no "core group" so if users don't submit changes they probably won't happen. Your description above is pretty right at first glance, the changes would be in xhtml11.conf and html5.conf I think. Cheers Lex > > thanks > > joerg > > >> >> Cheers >> Lex >> >>> >>> I believe that improving support for mathematical typesetting could >>> increase >>> asciidocs popularity in the corresponding communities. >>> >>> thank you >>> >>> joerg >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "asciidoc" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> > > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "asciidoc" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
