Re: [Axiom-developer] set output script yes

[Mike Dewar]

Hi William,

The Axiom book was written in LaTeX, and translated to htex for use in
the Axiom browser.  Tim has (or should have) the complete sources in the
CVS tree.

Mike.

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:08:10AM -0400, William Sit wrote:
> Tim Daly address@hidden wrote on 
> Sat, 21 Jun 2003 06:59:57 -0400
> > I have no idea what ")set output scripts yes" should do.
> 
> I think this refers to outputing in the IBM Script Markup Language
> (predecessor to GML, SGML, HTML), which is similar in concept to tex. It
> must be kind of obsolete by now, but up to until the early 1990, it was
> still used to typeset mathematical papers. The Axiom book might have
> been written using Script (AKA GML or BookMaster). If true, to make the
> book available to the general scientific public will require translating
> from script to tex (such a program might exist already but a simple
> search does not provide one and indeed the sentiment from replies to
> such conversion questions is it is difficult to do automatically in
> general).
> 
> I would think fixing any missing output routines for script is NOT
> worthwhile. In fact, that option and related code should be removed.
> There are more desirable output formats than script (such as XML,
> MathML). But either one is a big project.
> 
> William
> 
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