Re: [xmlroff] hello, mathml

[Tony G. <Ton...@Su...>]

Miko=C5=82aj Habdank-Wojew=C3=B3dzki <me...@wp...> writes:
> My name is Mikolaj Habdank and I am new to xmlroof, and docbook.

Welcome to xmlroff and the xmlroff-list.

> I'v already created my firs book. I use xsltproc to generate fo fil=
e and then xmlroff to generate pdf file. Everything is ok. But i want=
 to add two things:

You can go straight from XML to PDF using xmlroff, since xmlroff can =
do the
transformation (using libxslt).

> 1) I want to be able to add mathml and svg files which will be trns=
ormed to glyphs not to bitmaps in pdf file.

I was thinking about SVG support just today.

I was trying the DocBook testdocs tests with xmlroff today, and I was=
 reminded
about SVG then, too, since the testdocs includes some SVG samples.

> 2) I want to create svg file.
> Is it possible? Is there any documentation which can help me to use=
 mathml with docbook?

You'll have to ask on the DocBook mailing list to find out about usin=
g MathML
with DocBook.

Cairo (http://www.cairographics.org/) has long been the best option f=
or
supporting SVG, although the SVG support was "experimental".

Since this is the day for SVG, I just checked the Cairo website and f=
ound that
Cairo 1.2 was released *yesterday*.  Cairo now supports real (i.e., n=
o longer
"experimental") SVG, PDF, and PostScript backends.

Furthermore, but unrelated to SVG, Cairo 1.2 supports per-page sizing=
 of pages
in both PDF and PostScript.  Being able set the size of individual pa=
ges in
PostScript is enough to make it worthwhile to use Cairo 1.2.

I will be downloading Cairo 1.2 and seeing how well it works with xml=
roff.

The previous version of Cairo that I tried produced PDF but with over=
sized
text and its PostScript output was just bitmap images of pages, and I=
 didn't
try its experimental SVG support.

Adding SVG output may be as "simple" as adding another FoDoc subtype =
(or may
even be handled by the current FoDocCairo).  Getting SVG from the inp=
ut XML
into the SVG output as SVG will take some more work.  At this point, =
I'm not
sure what would need to be done.

Regards,


Tony.