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Re: FW: Equations.
At 07:23 AM 10/19/01 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
>/ Phillip Shelton <shelton@usq.edu.au> was heard to say:
>| I suppose I want to know Why this restriction.
>
>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>
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