Dnia wtorek, 8 marca 2011 o 21:27:21 Lech Rzedzicki napisał(a): > Hi. > > We have some decent ideas on how to handle units by following ISO etc, > but Docbook doesn't really standardise that. > > I am very interested in hearing from anyone who has had to capture any > measurements with Docbook. > I am interested in how did you capture units such as kilograms or > pounds and whether you had to store equivalent metric and imperial > measurements or did you convert when publishing. > One other area that I am also bit puzzled about is how to consistently > store ranges such as 2 - 5 kilograms - do you annotate such ranges in > any way or do you just store them as plain text? > Finally, how do you mark up fractions such as 1/3rd, ideally without > going into the complexity of MathML?
Your desired result in HTML is <SPAN CLASS="fraction" ><SUP CLASS="numerator" >1</SUP >⁄<SUB CLASS="denominator" >3rd</SUB ></SPAN >. It is entirely possible to typeset complex mathematics in HTML+CSS without recurring to MathML. They will not look as professional but nevertheless quite decent (of course, the browser allowing; Wikipedia rejected my ideas because some readers were using retarded browsers). Of course, it is still not practical to do it by hand, so you need a template system of some sort. I used MediaWiki as my first attempt; I have been using XSLT since I was banned from WP. HTH, Chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
