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 * [[http://www.docbook.org/|DocBook]] is big, complicated and full of features. But the emphasis is on technical documentation and support for mathematics and academic publishing is very lacking. The extensive structure is intimidating if you just have small project.

MathBook: An XML Application

A specification for XML tags and stylesheets to create usable output.

Shuttleworth Funded

Rob Beezer, [email protected]

Design Goals:

  1. Simple for authors to use - no more complicated logically than LaTeX
  2. Capture the structure of writing about mathematics and Sage
  3. Processing into a variety of formats
  4. A limited number of rational tags, with simple names
  5. Minimal use of external shell scripts
  6. XSLT 1.0 compatible: ideally the only required tool is xsltproc

Output Formats:

  1. HTML web pages, enhanced with MathJax, Sage Cell server, knowls

  2. LaTeX input to create PDFs and print with pdflatex

  3. HTML for in-browser previewing
  4. Doctesting of Sage code examples
  5. E-Books, once technically feasible
  6. Maybe a DocBook representation for conversion to other outputs

Project Status:

  • Funding: Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant, National Science Foundation UTMOST Grant
  • Mid-June 2013: initiated, not mature or stable

Files and Examples

Updated: June 25, 2013

Easiest: you should be able to preview the source file (calculus-article.xml) by opening it in a web browser with the stylesheet (article-html.xsl) in the same directory. This works on some browsers, and not on others, so experiment. I have used Firefox on Ubuntu with success.

Easy: use the following command to create XHTML output and view in your browser by opening the output file, which should look like: XHTML Output. MathJax does the math, Sage Cell Server does the code.

xsltproc article-html.xsl calculus-article.xml > calculus-article.html

Alternate: issue the following to produce PDF Output. Sage cells are being ignored right now. A textual version of these should be easy to implement.

xsltproc article-latex.xsl calculus-article.xml > calculus-article.tex
pdflatex calculus-article.tex

Advanced: create a Sage Cloud worksheet from the same source. I have this working in the lab.

Other Projects

  • tbook looks very much like what I am imagining. I have hacked a bit of it to work with the xsltproc processor with mixed success. Only 80 elements. But for a very short article, I have found cross-references broken and manufacturing a bibliography begins with BibTeX, so that requires some research (and shell scripts). Maybe some examples later.

  • DocBook is big, complicated and full of features. But the emphasis is on technical documentation and support for mathematics and academic publishing is very lacking. The extensive structure is intimidating if you just have small project.

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