On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 23:42, Clifford Yapp <cliffy...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's likely to be of some interest - we haven't had to do ... > The last time I looked the candidates were basically feed it to LaTeX > and get an image, or try MathML (don't recall how good the support for > that was). What did you find workable?
Cliff, I used LibreOffice Math to generate MathML. Then I used SVGMath to convert the resulting mml file to SVG (with some tweaking, taken care of wiith a short bash script). Then I used Inkscape to fine tune spacing and scalable brace sizes (SVGMath coud probably be fixed to handle those better). Finally, I included the svg files as media objects in DB and got a numbered equation. I used xsltproc and Apache Fop to do the grunt work to convert DB 5 to html and pdf. The main issue I ran into was choice of fonts that were usable across all tools. A subtlety I still don't understand is that Fop uses Batik in the pdf process and I had to redo my main document fonts to get consistent results. I have now settled on the GNU Free Fonts (FreeSerif, FreeSans, and FreeMono, all in True Type format) as my fonts of choice. A major advantage of those is that they have a large number of glyphs, larger even than the Linux Libertine fonts I thought were so classy. And they also look pretty good. I'm on the hook for generating some DB for BRL-CAD and I'll put together a sample doc to demo the equations (no forecast time, though). Best regards, -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
