[TxMt] MultiMarkdown in TextMate

[Brad Miller]

On Apr 10, 2006, at 1:24 PM, Dr. Drang wrote:

> TeXdown looks interesting, but it has two characteristics that I  
> want to avoid:
>
> 1. It creates HTML only.
> 2. It uses uses image files for the equations, which do not scale.
>
> MultiMarkdown eliminates the first by allowing an XSLT  
> transformation to LaTeX (MultiMarkdown.pl doesn't do this, but the  
> MultiMarkdown system does). My additions to MultiMarkdown create  
> <math> tags that can be processed in one of two ways:
>
> 1. Into LaTeX through the XSL files.
> 2. Into reasonably good-looking web pages through [jsMath][1].
>

I agree that the output of jsMath is amazing, and I like it better  
than the inserted image.  Getting all the javascript bits in the  
right place is the only catch I guess.

To stay with the Multimarkdown philosophy of converting to xhtml and  
then using style sheets to go to other formats it seems that a script  
in the same vein as TeXdown would be pretty simple.
   1. Detect that we are doing math either through $$ or `% or  
whatever mechanism.
   2. wrap the math in a <math> tag
   3.  Write xsl transformations.
	For html + jsMath:   insert all the <script> tags at the beginning  
of the template and Just keep the <math> tag around the math
	for LaTeX:   you just get rid of the <math> tag and insert the math  
with $ around it.
         for direct to pdf, I don't think the current solution of  
htmldoc works.
         for rtf I have no idea....

Brad

> --
> Dr. Drang
>
>
> On Apr 10, 2006, at 9:52 AM, Mark Eli Kalderon wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks, Dr. Drang. Look forward to your blog entry. BTW have you  
>> seen TeXdown http://wwwth.mppmu.mpg.de/members/jgrosse/texdown/ 
>> TeXdown-Readme.html ? It is a markdown preprocessor that adds just  
>> that functionality.
>>
>> All the best, Mark
>>
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