Re: [Boost-users] [boostbook+quickbook] : A way to write latex math

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boostbook+quickbook] : A way to write latex math
From: Jeroen Habraken (vexocide_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-25 05:11:17

On 25 October 2010 11:03, John Maddock <boost.regex_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> This is just some info, that might interest others :
>>
>> I just recently discovered :
>>
>> http://www.mathjax.org
>>
>> 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. Â 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.
>

Well, it's a LaTeX formula, which can be converted to PDF by latex /
pdflatex to be included in another PDF document, there has to be a way
to make that work.

Jeroen