[Blindmath] LaTeXML

[Tim Arnold]

I just want to add that plastex is another good tool for converting
latex to xml.
I use it every day in a production environment.
http://plastex.sourceforge.net/

--Tim Arnold


On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Neil Soiffer <NeilS at dessci.com> wrote:
> I know the author of that and they have been working on it for many years.
> They are approaching the 70% for the arXiv collection.  The reason it is not
> close to 100% is because so many people modify TeX via macros or other
> means, there is not "one" input syntax that needs to be translated, but
> 400,000 input syntaxes in the arXiv collection... ok, less than that, but
> definitely over 10,000.
>
> Of the remaining 30% of the documents, most of those get translated with
> warnings.  I think only a few percent fail badly.  I definitely recommend
> giving it a try if you need to do conversions from TeX to XML.
>
> Neil Soiffer
> Senior Scientist
> Design Science, Inc.
> www.dessci.com
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>
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Susan Jolly <easjolly at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>> Yesterday I happened to run across a new to me LaTeX to XML converter
>> written in Perl that has gotten some good reviews, especially for use on
>> Unix and Linux systems.
>> http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/
>>
>> This converter was developed for and successfully used for converting the
>> famous NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions to MathML.
>>
>> I haven't tried this myself but am posting this information because it
>> looks promising. For example, there is a report that more than half the
>> 400,000 documents in the arXiv collection thru 2006 were successfully
>> converted automatically to MathML using this tool.
>>
>> Susan
>>
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