Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XSL implementation of DBTeXMath

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell at wfu dot edu>]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Jirka Kosek wrote:

> I'm sorry, I overlooked that your dbtexmath requests user to input
> math delimiters. On the other hand in my experience (which can be
> different from yours) a majority of equations are simple inline or
> display ones...

I agree that is likely to be the case, but we shouldn't rule out more
complex math settings that require different delimiters.

> There are two solutions:
>
> 1. force user to type delimiters on every equation
>
> 2. add support for some processing instruction, which will turn-off
> automatic insertion of delimiters. E.g.
>
> <alt role="tex">
>   <?dbtex delims="no">
>   \begin{eqnarray*}...\end{eqnarray*}
> </alt>
>
> I personally prefer 2nd variant, but if your document contains a lot
> eqnarrays this is less suitable for you.

I think my preference is for No. 1, since I tend to think of the
delimiters as part of the TeX source.  But I don't mind very much
either way.

Allin Cottrell.