On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Bas Spitters wrote: > I wondered whether anyone has looked at latexml. > It might also be(come) a helpful tool for latex importation into texmacs??? > > Bas > > From http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/LaTeXML.html: > For many, LaTeX is the prefered means for document authoring, particularly > when significant mathematical content is involved. On the other hand, > content-oriented XML is an extremely useful storage format allowing > documents > to be used, and reused, for a variety of purposes, not least, presentation on > the Web. Given the rough mismatch between the two, particularly for > mathematics, conversion from LaTeX to XML is a bit tricky. Faced with this > situation, and the lack of other suitable tools at that time, the Digital > Library of Mathematical Functions proceeded to develop thier own tool, > LaTeXML, to fill this need. This document describes a preview release of > LaTeXML. > > The idealistic goals of LaTeXML are: > > * Faithful emulation of TeX's behaviour. > * Easily extensible. > * Lossless; preserving both semantic and presentation cues. > * Uses abstract LaTeX-like, extensible, document type. > * Determine the semantics of mathematical content (Content MathML, Good > Presentation MathML, eventually OpenMath). > > As these goals are not entirely practical, or somewhat contradictory, they are > implicitly modified by “as much as possible.” Completely mimicing TeX's > behaviour would seem to require the sneakiest modifications to TeX, itself. > `Ease of use,' of course, is in the eye of the beholder. Few documents are > likely to have completely unambiguous mathematics markup; human understanding > of both the topic and the surrounding text is needed to properly interpret > any particular mathematical fragment. Thus, we expect that document-specific > declarations or tuning to be necessary to faithfully convert mathematical > documents, rather than presuming to provide a `turn-key' solution. At the > same time, we would encourage a more content-oriented mathematical markup > style, than a presentation-oriented style.
Yep, we should keep an eye on this. It might enable us to produce more reliable converters in the future, even though the LaTeXML guys will already have a hard to make them nearly as good as they already are in TeXmacs... _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
