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Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boostbook+quickbook] : A way to write latex math
From: Bo Jensen (jensen.bo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-25 05:08:22

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:03 AM, John Maddock <boost.regex_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> This is just some info, that might interest others :
>>
>> I just recently discovered :
>>

>>
>> which is quite nice for writing math equations.
>>
>> I use quickbook for my documentation. Fortunately it is very easy to
>> incorporate MathJax into quickbook, so you can write :
>>
>> '''
>> <my-latex-math>some formula in latex</my-latex-math>
>> '''
>
> That's really cool, and it looks like Mathjax could become the defacto
> standard for Math in web pages.
>
> Unfortunately at present I don't see an easy way to integrate this into PDF
> generation - as the code you posted is HTML output specific.  However, given
> that MathJax can handle MathML - which is what Boost.Math uses for it's
> equations - I guess we need to experiment to see if this can be nicely
> integrated into the Boost.Math docs.

Yes, I know pdf pose a problem, but for my own simple usage, I think I
can hack my way around. I am still not sure I will need pdf
documentation in my project.

>
> Thanks for the heads up on this, John.
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