Re: ConTeXt to XML?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Brooks Moses wrote:

> On a different note, it may be worth pointing out that ConTeXt's 
> support for typesetting of complicated equations -- that is, the sort 
> of stuff for which one really wants the AMSmath package in LaTeX -- 
> really isn't especially great; it's pretty much limited to the 
> capabilities of Plain TeX.  I'm currently working (very slowly) on 
> trying to improve this by doing a port of AMSmath to ConTeXt, but I 
> have no idea how compatible that will be with ConTeXt's MathML/XML 
> support, nor when I'd have it to a point where it would be ready for 
> production work.
>
> The other alternative I know of for doing math in XML is embedding 
> bits of LaTeX code within the XML.  Since most "conversion to non-PDF 
> formats" involves converting the math to bitmap images anyway (or, at 
> least, any conversion to HTML for the web does!), I don't think that's 
> really complicating things much.  It's certainly possible in theory to 
> embed LaTeX-coded equations in ConTeXt, and there's a small bit of 
> comment on this on the Wiki.  In practice, it may take a bit of coding 
> to make work, but the amount won't be excessive.

there is a math module (m-math) and a new implementation of that (m-newmat) which does quite some ams math; 

i have no problem with adding more code but each time i ask for specs, nothing comes up -) 
 
Hans 

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