DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: XSL implementation of DBTeXMath

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> was heard to say:
| If you want include equations in DocBook (and don't want to use MathML)
| you can insert equations by usual DocBook way:
| 
| <inlineequation>
| <alt>E = mc^2</alt>
| <inlinemediaobject>
| <imageobject>
| <imagedata fileref="eq1.gif"/>
| </imageobject>
| </inlinemediaobject>
| </inlineequation>

With respect, I think that's abuse of the alt tag. Might I suggest instead
supporting this with:

<inlineequation>
<inlinemediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="eq1.gif"/>
</imageobject>
<textobject><phrase>E=mc squared</phrase></textobject>
<textobject role="tex"><phrase>E=mc^2</phrase></textobject>
</inlinemediaobject>
</inlineequation>

(I note that the current stylesheets assume that they can choose the first
textobject with a phrase which will no longer be true.)

| You should process this file with TeX or LaTeX to get DVI file. Then run
| dvi2bitmap utility on the DVI. Images for all equations in document are
| created -- you have also HTML document with math. Isn't it nice. ;)

Very cool.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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