Hello all, some time ago my colleague announced that we are working on MathML implementation for FOP. Our work is based on the JEuclid library. Now we completed code review to comply with ASF code requirements.
Our results are available from CVS at :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/jeuclid (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jeuclid/). Among MathML feature we made several additional features for fop-0.20.4. These features are also included into test/first-demo and consists of - to embed PDF's; - to have bold, italic styles for TTF Unicode fonts (namely Arial Unicode MS). Now we are thinking of integrating these features into fop-trunk. Please, have a look whether our results is satisfactory to become part of fop or xmlgraphics at ASF. Any of the comments are welcome. There are also several issues, that we would like to ask here to make resolve them in general way: 1. How to configure font to render MathML. Most of the font does not contain enough mathematical symbols to render complex mathematical formulas. At the moment we have constant pointing to "Arial Unicode MS" (as mostly completed Unicode font). We were tried to make support of another font but stop this activity after finding out that (in this font "Integral" symbol is missing but "Top Half Integral" and "Bottom Half Integral" are present). We need an idea how we could handle such situations in a general way. 2. When rendering MathML we used awt.Font class, which is not accessible on the Unix boxes without X-server installed. The awt.Font class is used to get font size for proper position of the upper and lower indexes and so on. Are there any chance, that we could re-use Fop generated metrics? Where we could start look at that? Taking into consideration these to issues, I guess, that JEuclid is still to young, however, it is already powerful enough to start look at it. -- Best regards, Gennadiy Tsarenkov
