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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX
From:       rgheck <rgheck () bobjweil ! com>
Date:       2009-04-29 14:53:30
Message-ID: 49F869EA.7000006 () bobjweil ! com
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Pavel Sanda wrote:
> Richard Heck wrote:
>   
>> Pavel Sanda wrote:
>>     
>>>>   - accurate and complete math translation,
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> can you be more specific about this point? is it that some expressions
>>> are typeset with bugs? is there some way how user would detect this, or 
>>> avoid
>>> it by eg switching to math material to be externally typesetted by latex
>>> and then included as images like latex2html do?
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> So far as I can see, math is almost untranslated at this point. (I just 
>> cloned from git.) Theorem-type environments do not get converted, either. 
>> There's more on this in a different message.
>>
>> I don't want to be a party-pooper, but under these circumstances I can't 
>> agree that eLyXer is "ready for prime time".
>>     
>
> thats why i asked what not 'accurate and complete math translation' means. considering
> that lyx is widely used for math related stuff we can't ship something which throw away
> half of the equations or even worse forget some symbol from time to time ;)
>
>   
Right now, it just outputs the raw LaTeX for anything it doesn't 
recognize. Fixing this is a matter of writing a LaTeX-->HTML entities 
converter, for some of it, or using some trick to generate little 
pictures, or maybe using MathML, who knows? But what about math macros?

rh

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