On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 10:15 +0200, Adrian Custer wrote: > Hey Shaun, all, > > Louis just raised this question on gnumeric-list, thought you all might > have an answer: > > On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 08:17 -0700, Louis Luangkesorn wrote: > ...snip... > > (i) There are equations in here, so I need to hear from Adrian if > > dblatex is reasonable, or if the equations need to be converted to > > MathML (or if I need to attach images for the equations, not having > > ever used MathML before.) > ...snip... > > what's the status of equation handling in gnome docs?
I've had a long-standing intention of making Yelp capable of doing MathML. But since nobody's asked for it before now, it hasn't been a priority. Since Gecko handles it natively, it ought to be as simple as passing any MathML straight through the XSLT untouched. (We could possibly add a Content->Presentation MathML layer into the XSLT, but I think the demand for that is close to nil.) Of course, writing MathML by hand is a chore. Just an absolute nightmare. Nobody wants to do it. If I were designing an XML-based format for math, I'd expect much more parsing intelligence by applications to reduce the burden on authors. I've talked before about using some sort of converter from a TeX-like format to MathML. Given such a tool, we could write DocBook with embedded TeX, then run it through a pre-processor to turn it into DocBook+MathML at build time. Of course, then there's the issue of WebKit. It seems we're moving away from Gecko in favor of WebKit. There are a lot of things that excite me about this move, but it does close the window on our MathML possibilities. Unless, of course, somebody wants to step up. >From what I've seen of GtkMathView, it seems it can be plugged into lots of places using different backends, so maybe somebody could get some WebKit love going on. What's Luca doing these days? Could we bribe him? (And then, of course, there's the issue of having good, free (as in freedom) math fonts. I'm not sure, but I don't think that's really happened yet.) -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
