Dear Bill, Dear Eitan, Page, Bill writes: > Eitan > > On Thursday, October 20, 2005 1:37 AM you wrote: > > > > I'll provide a jsmath mode. Probably during the winter break. Maybe > > before that.
This would be wonderful! > But maybe it's a bit shocking though that the MathML result is nearly twice > the size of the pdf file. :( Well, I guess I knew that MathML was verbose > ... Oh dear. This is really true? Would this be better with jsMath? Alternatively, is it possible to compress MathMl on the fly -- I heard that "it compresses very well :-)" ? > > * Added {\csname HCode\endcsname{}} before ^ in the following > > three formulas > > > > ${^{HAND}{\bf tv}}_{\bf x}$, > > ${^{HAND}{\bf tv}}_{\bf y}$, > > ${^{HAND}{\bf tv}}_{\bf z}$. > > $${\bf Rot(k,\theta)} = {\bf Rot(^C{\bf > > z},\theta)}\eqno(1.60)$$ > > > > As far as TeX is concerned, in all of the cases a base {} should have > > been included. TeX4ht in many occasions has problems with empty bases > > because they don't show in the dvi code. > > Ah I see, like this ${{}^{HANB} ... $ > > > The code {\csname HCode\endcsname{}} works for TeX and TeX4ht. So ${{}^{HANB} ... $ would not work for tex4ht? This seems like a problem for me. > > The extra \\ at the end is also inappropriate for LaTeX. > > > > Well, garbage in garbage out ;-) > > > > Wrong way to introduce text: $${\rm {or\ as\ \ \ }} ... $$ > > Wrong way to introduce > > functions (sin, cos): sin \theta & cos \theta & 0 & 0\cr > > Wrong way to emphasize math: {\bf x} > > etc...... > > Well, please define "wrong way" - latex and dvipdfm swallowed all that with > out a complaint. I will agree that the contents of the file is a little > crufty, but certainly no worse that a code of LaTeX coding I have seen. > > Besides a stronger discipline, how can we insure that our LaTeX coding meets > certain minimum standards so that it doesn't cause the conversion programs > to barf? Do you know of any sort of 'lint' program for LaTeX that could > detect and warn about the "wrong way" of doing things? I think that chktex does this: http://baruch.ev-en.org/proj/chktex/ it issues warnings about possible typographical errors. On the other hand, we could simply say: a proper pamphlet file is a file that is correctly processed by latex and tex4ht. :-) Martin _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer