Re: At a loss how to proceed

[darnold@northcoast.com]

Hans et al,

OK, some questions.

You say "starting with pure tex," does this mean that if you start with
Context, then tex4ht is not an option?

Secondly, since I teach mathematics, anything I write is going to contain
a *lot* of mathematics and a lot of figures (graphs, etc). Is XML and
MATHML going to be painful in this case?

How can I get started with a small project or example, so I can determine
how to proceed? I think I can look at the latex followed by tex4ht
direction myself, but I could use some help with the second method, xml to
pdf via context and xml to html via xst. I really have no idea how to
proceed with this direction.

I could use some pointers, or even a small example, with math code and a
metapost graph or two.



> Matthias Weber wrote:
>> I am afraid your question is to vague to be answerable.
>>
>> Hence here are two pieces of information that might or might not be
>> useful:
>>
>>
>> i) Mathematica 5.1 can convert TeX to MathML, at least
>> to some extent. So it should at least in principle be possible to
>> convert carefully crafted TeX files to MathML + XML.
>> I don't know whether one can make ConTeXt do that, too.
>> If yes, I am sure it is better than what Mathematica can offer.
>>
>> ii) Proofread your web pages with lynx (text-only).
>> If you need formulas, use jpegs/pngs that have as a textual description
>> a text that will be read as you would read the formula (eg:
>> sum of 1 over n square for n from 1 to infinity equals pi squared over
>> 6)
>
> it all depends on where one starts: tex or xml; starting with pure tex,
> tex4ht
> may be a solution; on the other hand, when one starts with xml, one can
> use
> context to produce the pdf's and xst to make html documents.
>
> Once you get accurstomed to it, editing in xml is not that bad and for
> math,
> there are math(ml) editors to make the complex formulas.
>
> Hans
>
>
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