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

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Jeroen Habraken wrote:

On 25 October 2010 11:03, John Maddock wrote:

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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.  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.

Without being an expert. The neat thing about the MathJax approach was it avoided compiling latex completely (and all the setup hassle it brings), so if you want to do that, I see no need for MathJax. There are plugins that handle latex formulas separtely, I just found it a pain to use.

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