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["Zoltán Kovács" <address@hidden>]

Hello List,

here I forward my email wrote to Joris yesterday. Now I'm a bit more clever than 1 day ago (I started to read the docs! :-). So I know that TeXmacs offer MathML recognition in the HTML/XML conversion. My only problem is that the Maple output is something TeXmacs cannot recognize well. We are working on the Maple HTML output first, but probably the best solution would be to hack the HTML/TeXmacs converter. As I know something more, I will write to the list.

Best regards,
Zoltan Kovacs
assistant professor
Bolyai Institute, Hungary

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Zoltán Kovács < address@hidden>
Date: 2007.07.25. 21:15
Subject: improving HTML import
To: Joris van der Hoeven < address@hidden>
Cc: Maróti György <address@hidden>, Hudi István < address@hidden>, Gábor Bakos < address@hidden>, Bencs József <address@hidden>, chu-ching huang < address@hidden>

Dear Joris,

I have a current work which is to typeset a whole book written in Maple 10. As you probably know, Maple 10 has rather a bad output, both for native (printed or postscript) format, and LaTeX output is completely broken. (Maple 11 seems to be the same.)

The author of the book asked me to put the whole text into TeX or something similar. My solution seems to be TeXmacs as the best way, but first I going to make an HTML output with MathML formulas from the Maple UI. This is the only possibility for me which seems to work at all. I successfully compiled your tm_maple_9 binary for Maple 10 as well and it is working nicely. (However, I don't really know how to get pictures from Maple on-the-fly, is it possible?)

What I have to do then is to add a MathML conversion part to the HTML import facility to TeXmacs. I would like to use the formconv utility for it ( http://formconv.sf.net). Formconv can read MathML formulas and can create different kind of outputs. The TeXmacs format is missing yet but hopefully it is not impossible to write such an export filter in a reasonable time.

If you have any suggestions where to start the work or which docs should I read as a must, please tell me. If my (or "our", probably a friend of mine will help to do the job) contributed work gives a nice output, it might be a part of the next release of TeXmacs as well.

Best regards, Zoltan

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