Late Ironly

posted 10:46AM May 22, 2007 with tags docbook fop mathml by Lars Trieloff

Jeremias Märki blogs about MathML for FOP. This is ironic, because I looked into DocBook first six years ago due to its support for MathML. I wanted to take notes for my studies in an XML-format and quickly found MathML. But embedding MathML in XHTML seemed no good alternative to me, so I looked further and found DocBook. Since then I intensified my efforts with DocBook as you know, but only a small subset of XSL-FO processors (Antennahouse) was capable of processing MathML. And this subset was much too expensive for me. Now. six years after my inital steps with DocBook and MathML, it looks like a viable open source alternative will emerge.