Ah, I understand better now. Yes, it's true that HTML Help is picky
about file extensions. I did not realize that the files had to have the
XHTML extension.
I did a little experimenting, and I am able to get files with this
extension to work in HTML Help, but unfortunately it breaks easily if
file associations are altered in Windows. Here's what I did to make it
work:
(1) Gave a topic file the extension ".htm.xhtml". This is a workaround
to an HTML Help issue that prevents it from searching topic files that
use an extension that does not start with the letter H.
(2) Made sure that the XHTML document does *not* have an XML prolog
(<?xml...?>). HTML Help only treats the document as an HTML document if
this prolog is missing; otherwise it will be treated like XML.
This works in a default Windows installation. However, when I install
another browser (Firefox) as the default browser, the XHTML extension
gets taken over, and the CHM behavior reverts to trying to open the file
externally. Even going back and trying to re-map the extension or to set
IE back as the default browser doesn't fix the problem from that point.
I suppose all this doesn't help if you can't solve the final problem,
but maybe you'll see a way through it that I haven't. I'll keep chewing
on it as well.
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From: DeanNelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:49 PM
To: Cavicchio, Rob; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Docbook with Math ML/Latex =>
PDF
Rob
Your input got me further. Thanks.
You are right - the HHC uses IE but there are a few things that
got in the way.
1. It appears that the only way to have IE & FF actually display
the MathML is to make sure it's <xml:output> is "xml"
AND html.ext must be set to ".xhtml". That was the only way that
I could make the MathML show up in a browser. (Bob mentions this in his
book)
2. HHC only knows HTML. [now I'm stuck] It will allow me to use
an XHTML file, but thinks its a foreign file and try to load it in a
browser. I'm using the 4.74 version of the HTML Help compiler.
3. Looking at the HTMLHELP stylesheets, it looks like it calls
the html style sheets.
Anybody have comments on this setup? I suspect that because of
namespaces the MathML needs a well behaved XML - like XHTML.
Regards,
Dean Nelson
In a message dated 10/28/08 13:47:37 Pacific Daylight Time,
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An other thing that I have to deal with is multiple
outputs: PDF, html,
MSHelp.
With PDF jeuclid works fine. With html FFor IE7 can be
dictated.
However, MSHelp is uninteligent and doesn't handle
MathML.
Does anyone have a solution for that? I don't really
want to create a
process that converts the MathML to image. That would be
my last resort.
<
I'm a little confused by this. HTML Help uses Internet
Explorer to
display the HTML pages, so just about anything that can
be displayed in
IE should also be displayed in HTML Help topics.
I'm not familiar with JEuclid, from its SourceForge page
it looks like
it's a Java applet? Perhaps the problem is merely
getting the Help
topics to point to the right location to load the
applet. This can be a
little tricky with files that are compiled into a CHM,
but it's usually
doable.
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