Re: ConTeXt to XML?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Brooks Moses wrote:

> At 01:40 PM 7/19/2005, you wrote:
>
>> Brooks Moses wrote:
>>
>>> 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;
>
>
> It does some, yes, though not (yet) the multiline alignment parts that 
> I need.

ok, so just isolate the code that you want to be included

>> i have no problem with adding more code but each time i ask for 
>> specs, nothing comes up -)
>
>
> Yeah, I know.  The specs for what I need are "I've got this pile of 
> equations written in LaTeX with the AMSmath package, and I'd like to 
> be able to copy them back and forth between LaTeX and ConTeXt without 
> needing to edit them."  I'm slowly working on reducing that to 
> something that's actually useful as specifications (and as some code), 
> and I hope to get some of that to you within the next few months or so.

Ok,  maybe we can also make a small manual then -)


Hans

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