Warren, thanks again. I'm certainly at that stage of the conversion work where I'm starting to wonder how much sense what I'm doing makes. Perhaps I should try to set the next issue in TeX. According to inlineequation.html, inlineequation can't have CDATA children. xmllint certainly complains…
Stephen 2008/9/12 Warren Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Stephen Taylor wrote: > >> >> * Math phrases occur in the body text of articles, as in references >> to a value n. I'm converting a production process which has been >> HTML>Word>PDF to DocBook>PDF&HTML. So my markup has gone from >> <i>n</i> to >> <inlineequation><mathphrase>n</mathphrase></inlineequation>. >> > > I don't see why you need both tags. Just set up a rule to style > inlineequation as well. > > * Though I've done it for the time being, it isn't my aim to set all >> Common Math Notation in italic type, only specific terms >> > > You shouldn't look to DocBook as a replacement for TeX, InDesign, or even > FrameMaker. (It's pretty close in spirit to FrameMaker, yet a gulf still > separates them.) > > DocBook works best for rigidly-formatted documents, especially when you > need multiple output formats from a single source that all look good. If you > need one output and it must look excellent, don't expect DocBook to do that > for you. There's still no substitute for a human typesetter going over the > galleys to tweak things. > > If you like, you can write in DocBook, output to some intermediary format, > tweak there, and go to press from that. > > italic glyphs for Greeks and braces look a little off.) >> > > Surely that's just a matter of the font you've chosen? Granted, you don't > get a huge selection to play with in HTML, but if you output to PDF instead, > you can get quite a bit of difference in the look with a little tweaking in > the customization layer. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
