Gentle persons: I have created an EMC2 LaTeXMathML test document.
I have gathered into this document all* the instances of LaTeXMath markup in the .txt files containing the AsciiDoc source for the English-language edition of the EMC2 V2.5 documentation set. Each section of this document consists of the name of the source file, an excerpt of the source file long enough to establish context for the markup, and the HTML rendering of the excerpt using AsciiDoc and LaTeXMathML (see http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/latexmathml.html). Each section concludes with a comment which focusses on style, often offers alternatives, and occasionally strays into editorial commentary. I have not created a similar document for the other language editions both because I lack the necessary language skills and because I believe the results would be essentially similar. Please note carefully that this document has been processed by AsciiDoc directly, not by the EMC2 documentation toolchain, so more testing has yet to be done. In particular, I don't know yet if the techniques used in this document survive the transformations from AsciiDoc to DocBook to dblatex to the backend drivers, and finally into PDF as well as HTML formats, nor that the results would look as good in the EMC2 documentation style. Do not, therefore, act on the suggestions in this documentation until the remainder of my testing is done. I conclude from this exercise, nevertheless, that we should be able to display nearly all our LaTeXMath markup in HTML. Equally importantly, I conclude that most of the instances of LaTeXMath markup are unnecessary because we are employing so little of the expressiveness of mathematics. My Google Site won't let me serve this document directly, but you should be able to download it from https://sites.google.com/site/manisbutareed/home/emc2-latexmathml-test and browse it locally. If not, let me know. I may have set the share-permission incorrectly. This document renders with minor differences in my recent-vintage Mozilla Firefox browser (Ubuntu/Linux and MS Windows) and Google Chrome browser (MS Windows). It does not render in recent Internet Explorer or Opera browsers (MS Windows), displaying a banner about needing the MathPlayer add-on, which I did not attempt to install. This message is generated by the embedded latexmathml.js and may or may not be correct in all cases. It renders gibberish in my recent Apple Safari browser (MS Windows). I don't have the energy to chase down the browser-engine dependencies. If universal browser support is desired then I fear that only the alternative of generating image files for inclusion in the final document will end up being acceptable. Not a catastrophe, just another inconvenience. Regards, Kent *with the trivial exception of ./docs/src/config/ini_config.txt simply because I didn't get to it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
