On Friday 23 May 2008 7:08:09 am Paul Kienzle wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 08:45:02PM -0500, John Hunter wrote: > > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Paul Kienzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It looks okay in Firefox 2.0.0.14 (though it did complain about missing > > > the mathml fonts). > > > > > > IE 7 displays the xml tree. > > > > I don't mind using latex for math where is really helps but I think we > > should try to keep it to a minimum, since it appears mathml in the > > browsers is poorly supported. I also want to keep the docstrings as > > human readable as possible. I know that in some cases latex *adds* to > > the human readability, but in other cases it detracts, so we want to > > balance the elegance of the final pdflatex generated PDF output with > > the reality that many will be seeing the docs either in plain text or > > improperly rendered HTML. If it can be done easily enough with ascii > > math art, we should prefer that. > > Yes it is nice to keep things readable for the help system. > > One possibility is running the docstrings through a preprocessor as > part of the install process. This can remove extraneous reST markup, > and using tex2mail, convert latex formulae to ascii (I haven't tried > it yet, but that's what it claims to do). This also lets you plug > in attribute documentation at compile time rather than doing runtime > hacks. > > However, the problem I was referring to above is that IE7 is not > rendering the xml, even for pages which did not have mathml. > This might be something simple like making sure files use .html > rather than .xml. Darren has taken the temp pages down so I can't > try that.
I moved them when I updated mpl to split the API reference from the Users Guide: http://dale.chess.cornell.edu/~darren/temp/matplotlib/ I just heard from Jens again, he has another extension that uses png's rather than mathml. I'll try it when I get to work this morning, it should work in all browsers and we can use regular html files. Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
