Hermann Kraus schrieb: > Hello! > > On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 01:38:13 +0200, Thomas Zastrow > <listen at thomas-zastrow.de> wrote: >> But I'm trying to force Hermann into the MathML direction, away from >> LateX ... :-) >
> I still don't consider MathML a good alternative to LaTeX: > - Many people already know latex, for those who don't there is LyX, > which has a good editor and is written in QT and therefore should be > easy to integrate. > > - LaTeX produces better output than most if not all MathML typesetters. > - If you are used to it you can type latex pretty fast, but I don't > believe anybody will be good a typing mathml. > - This plugin is aimed at the scientifc community for producing > posters, etc. So they probably want to include formulas from their > papers. And these papers are usually written in latex, so it can be as > easy as a copy'n'paste to add a forumla. > - latex supports about any type of math you can think of and is tested > by many, many people. mathml converters OTOH are not widely used and > probably will have bugs in seldom used parts > - If you really need mathml just convert it to latex: > http://www.orcca.on.ca/MathML/texmml/mmltotex.html > - Also I intend to make everything scriptable, so I should be no > problem to write a python script that converts between mathml and latex. > Hi Hermann, certainly it's your choice, LateX is surely OK ;-) I just thought that it would be simpler to integrate MathML than LateX: it's also XML and can converted simply to SVG, so that it wouldn't necessary to integrate another rendering engine. But I'm anxious on your results, I'm your first beta tester :-) Best, Tom -- ---------------------------- http://www.thomas-zastrow.de German Forum - DTP under Linux: http://www.opendtp.de ----------------------------
