Please don't work on private channels. You can use the fop-dev mailing list to discuss stuff around MathML as long as there is some relation to FOP.
I wasn't aware of the advanced requirements like baseline alignment and such. At any rate, the new FOP has the ideal infrastructure to handle cases like that. You also have to see that the MathML extension was probably never used in production since it was hidden for years inside the examples directory. If you guys have additional needs bring them here, band together. The FOP committers will certainly assist where they can. If bringing in JEuclid into the Apache Software Foundation helps this process I'm glad to help start talks with the original authors of JEuclid and to serve as sponsoring member when it has to go through the Incubator. Still, Norman, converting MathML to XSL-FO is almost certainly not doable but that's not even necessary because as Siarhei Baidun mentioned it is possible to paint the formulae directly to a Graphics2D interface (all inside FOP). The way through SVG is most probably not necessary for output formats like PDF, PostScript and Java2D. On 27.07.2005 13:07:59 Norman Markgraf wrote: > Thank you, Siarhei, for the explanation of the interrelationship between > JEuclid and FOP. In fact that was roughly what I mean by "image". As I > explained, I am not in the details. > > The words by Jeremias, that you can not place all element properly, might be > the point that sounds the most important to me. Does anybody know if there > is an approach like that one Vincent wanted to try, but has not find the > time for? > > You are most likely right, Jeremias, but ... I think the way to convert > MathML to XSL:FO is more natural. Maybe here are some people who give this a > try. If so, please contact me via private email. > > Regards, > Norman Markgraf Jeremias Maerki
