Re: [Fwd: help needed -- adding math symbols to Unicode]

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Tobias Burnus wrote:

> since ConTeXt is going to have a AMS module I thought it might be
> usefull to
> forward this.
> 
> To become really usefull, we only need a context2xml converter.
> BTW: Is there any xml2eps converter available? More and more programs
> start to
> use this as file format (e.g. KOffice of KDE).

(1) Taco hs already done a lot on the fonts, actually he's the spider in
this web of unicode math fonts. So, in this respect, context will be ok. 

(2) There is a conceptual problem with tex->...ml On the one hand we
want tex's macro engine to expand hig level macros to high level xml, on
the other hand, tex in itself has no knowledge of structure at all. 

(3) I'm looking into the possibiliy to add structure to pdf. In
principle thi is no problem (I did some tests). If we also provide the
appropriate plug in ... 

(4) When xml is to be the storage format, it makes more sense to use xml
as input too. Therefore context has to understand xml. There are two
ways to go: (1) xml->intermediate tex-> dvi/pdf or (2) xml->dvi/pdf. The
first is already prototyped (I'm working on an example of this.) and
don't be
surprised if some day soon the second alternative is there. 

Hans 
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