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MathML-aware article conversion from LaTeX a comparison study. (English) Zbl 1176.68233

Sojka, Petr (ed.), DML 2009. Towards digital mathematics library, Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada, July 8–9th 2009. Proceedings. Brno: Masaryk University (ISBN 978-80-210-4781-5/pbk). 109-120 (2009).
Summary: 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).
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1169.00002].

MSC:

68U15 Computing methodologies for text processing; mathematical typography
68P99 Theory of data
68W99 Algorithms in computer science
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