From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/21485 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt to XML? Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:40:59 +0200 Message-ID: <42DD655B.5020507@wxs.nl> References: <4491E49E-9A14-4D8D-9ED8-314B1A100C1F@uni-bonn.de> <9EA19B5C-0590-49C8-B397-0DDF02B0E53F@uni-bonn.de> <6faad9f005052410333139b7f2@mail.gmail.com> <429378DC.407@seznam.cz> <6faad9f005052413547f1e774f@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f0050628073767e019bf@mail.gmail.com> <32E92F94-02D4-4A1E-A350-6F3CFF2FDD1A@uni-bonn.de> <6faad9f0050715124647ba63fa@mail.gmail.com> <6E7CB668-55CB-42CD-BAD4-F58C3EEC5983@uni-bonn.de> <42DAC94E.4080902@wxs.nl> <4491E49E-9A14-4D8D-9ED8-314B1A100C1F@uni-bonn.de> <4.3.1.2.20050719120930.01d1c628@cits1.stanford.edu> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121805652 20578 80.91.229.2 (19 Jul 2005 20:40:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:40:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jul 19 22:40:43 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DuytG-0004re-96 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:40:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A9BD127D0; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:40:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23659-01-4; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:40:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21AFA127DF; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:40:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC3F127DF for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:40:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23659-01-3 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:40:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8883127D0 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:40:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j6JKeLiW026975 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:40:21 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id D9D891838E; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:56:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.52] (unknown [10.100.1.52]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1C8417AEB for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:56:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20050719120930.01d1c628@cits1.stanford.edu> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.86.1/984/Tue Jul 19 11:16:09 2005 on mailrelay02 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:21485 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:21485 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------