MathML-aware Article Conversion from LaTeX

Stamerjohanns, Heinrich; Ginev, Deyan; David, Catalin; Misev, Dimitar; Zamdzhiev, Vladimir; Kohlhase, Michael

  • Towards a Digital Mathematics Library. Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada, July 8-9th, 2009, Publisher: Masaryk University Press(Brno), page 109-120

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Publishing in Mathematics and theoretical areas in Computer Science and Physics has been predominantly using TeX/LaTeX as a formatting language in the last two decades. This large corpus of born-digital material is both a boon — LaTeX is semi-semantic format where the source often contains indications of the author’s intentions — and a problem — TeX is Turing-complete and authors use this freedom to use thousands of styles and millions of user macros. Several tools have been developed to convert TeX/LaTeX documents to XML-based — i.e. Web and DML-compatible formats. Different DML Projects use different tools, and the selection seems largely accidental. To put the choice of converters for DML projects onto a more solid footing and to encourage competition and feature convergence we survey the market. In this paper we investigate and compare five LaTeX-to-XML transformers in three dimensions: a ) ergonomic factors like documentation, ease of installation, b ) coverage, and c ) quality of the resulting documents (in particular the MathML parts).

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Stamerjohanns, Heinrich, et al. "MathML-aware Article Conversion from LaTeX." Towards a Digital Mathematics Library. Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada, July 8-9th, 2009. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2009. 109-120. <http://eudml.org/doc/220017>.

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author = {Stamerjohanns, Heinrich, Ginev, Deyan, David, Catalin, Misev, Dimitar, Zamdzhiev, Vladimir, Kohlhase, Michael},
booktitle = {Towards a Digital Mathematics Library. Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada, July 8-9th, 2009},
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AU - David, Catalin
AU - Misev, Dimitar
AU - Zamdzhiev, Vladimir
AU - Kohlhase, Michael
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AB - Publishing in Mathematics and theoretical areas in Computer Science and Physics has been predominantly using TeX/LaTeX as a formatting language in the last two decades. This large corpus of born-digital material is both a boon — LaTeX is semi-semantic format where the source often contains indications of the author’s intentions — and a problem — TeX is Turing-complete and authors use this freedom to use thousands of styles and millions of user macros. Several tools have been developed to convert TeX/LaTeX documents to XML-based — i.e. Web and DML-compatible formats. Different DML Projects use different tools, and the selection seems largely accidental. To put the choice of converters for DML projects onto a more solid footing and to encourage competition and feature convergence we survey the market. In this paper we investigate and compare five LaTeX-to-XML transformers in three dimensions: $a$) ergonomic factors like documentation, ease of installation, $b$) coverage, and $c$) quality of the resulting documents (in particular the MathML parts).
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