>> 1. Nobody has written the LaTeX -> MathML code yet, and I've been too >> lazy. Anyone who is interested in doing this should get in touch. >> > > Well, I'd certainly be "interested". I use mathematics *a lot* in my > writing. Presumably modifying a large program like Pandoc is intractably > difficult though?
Just write a separate library that parses LaTeX input and returns MathML output. Pandoc could then use this library. So you wouldn't need to know anything about pandoc's internals. Just write a function teXMathToMathML :: String -> String. This would be a great contribution! You could get a head start by looking at the LaTeXMathML.js code. > It strikes me that perhaps using LaTeX to enter mathematical markup is > rather against the spirit of Markdown. Surely there should be an option > to include raw LaTeX, but a more "natural" encoding that covers "most" > mathematics would be nice also. Of course, that means somebody has to > design it first... I think it makes good sense to use LaTeX, which is already designed to be natural but flexible, and is already known by most mathematicians. My guess is that in designing a more natural format, one would eventually reinvent something like LaTeX... John _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
