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Re: [Groff] groff html output, eqn and journals
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Re: [Groff] groff html output, eqn and journals |
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Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:46:57 -0400 |
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Joerg van den Hoff <address@hidden>:
> > If you run the development version of my doclifter program with CVS groff,
> > you should be able to generate DocBook-XML with embedded MathML. A program
> > like xmlto might then be able to map it to RDF.
> excluding the equations, I presume?
Including them. That's the point -- once you have a MathML-aware DocBook
toolchain, doclifter+groff will generate the MathML for you.
> > I guess I'd better do a doclifter release.
>
> it would really be nice to have this available soon. would you please notify
> this list when you have done so?
Yes, I will. Matters are slightly complicated by the fact that I've just
changed distros and will probably have to change my release tools before
I can ship.
> your eqn2mathml filter works standalone, too? i.e. why is CVS groff
> needed at all?
Because the eqn-to-MathML translation code I wrote is actually a
back end glued to geqn's eqn parser. It's only there in CVS.
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>