Re: [Bibulus-dev] Re: Math

[Thomas M. Widmann]

"Torsten Bronger" <address@hidden> writes:

> Halloechen!

Hallo!

Welcome to bibulus-dev!

> > there's a problem with titles: Mathematics.
> >
> > With BibTeX, it was quite common to simply switch to math mode,
> > as for example in xampl.bib:
> >
> > @TECHREPORT{techreport-minimal,
> >    author = "Tom Terrific",
> >    title = "An {$O(n \log n / \! \log\log n)$} Sorting Algorithm",
> >    institution = "Fanstord University",
> >    year = 1988,
> > }
> >
> > For the time being, I guess we have to restrict people to using
> > whatever characters they can find in Unicode, combined with italics
> > and bold, but this is hardly a satisfactory solution.
> >
> > Would it be at all feasible to include MathML into Bibulus XML?
> 
> Yes.  You just have to add it to <formatted> and include the MathML
> DTD into your DTD as an external parsed entity.

OK.

> > And how difficult would it be to convert this to the various
> > output formats afterwards?
> 
> Well, it's not easy.  On the other hand, you can pass it verbatim to
> (X)HTML and XML DocBook.  Then it's not your problem anymore.  ;-)

;-)

> For LaTeX (or BibTeX), you have to convert it with e.g. XSLT.  But
> this has been done already by numerous people.

Has it?  Do you have a reference?  And is any implementation of it
released under the GNU license so that we can include it?

/Thomas
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