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Re: FW: Equations.
- To: Roman Suzi <rnd at onego dot ru>
- Subject: Re: FW: DOCBOOK: Equations.
- From: "M. Wroth" <mark at astrid dot upland dot ca dot us>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 06:24:45 -0700
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I'm at least generally aware of MathML. But it's not part of the DocBook
core, and I'd like support for equations to be part of the core, not an
extension.
I seem to be a minority opinion, though :-)
At 05:17 PM 10/19/01 +0400, Roman Suzi wrote:
>On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, M. Wroth wrote:
>
> > >With respect to equations:
> > >
> > >1. Equation and InformalEquation only contain graphics. That's because
> > > there's no markup for the equation content in DocBook. It could be
> > > argued that some equations would be fine in ASCII and we should have
> > > allowed that. (But you're the first person ever to ask.)
> >
> > While I'd rather see some form of math markup become part of the DocBook
> > core, allowing such equations as can be expressed in "text" would be
> useful
> > to me. (Since you asked :-)
> >
> > Mark B. Wroth
> > <mark@astrid.upland.ca.us>
>
>There is MathML for that. probably it could be somehow
>integrated with DocBook?
>
>Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi
>--
> - Petrozavodsk - Karelia - Russia - mailto:rnd@onego.ru -
>
>
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