Hello, Yes, a future version of Oxygen will offer support for editing MathML equations in the Author mode (CSS-driven tagless editing). There is a plugin for DITA Open Toolkit called Plus: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/files/Demos/ which adds SVG rendering for MathML to the XHTML output, the HTML Help output and the Eclipse Help output generated with DITA Open Toolkit. It does not add the MathML content to the PDF output. The SVG images should not have the scaling problem of the GIF images that you use now. I tried to integrate it in the DITA-OT distributed with Oxygen but I could not do that yet because it seems it requires more than the usual steps for integrating a DITA-OT plugin. It does not come with documentation for the DITA developer yet but you can ask for help on the dita-users mailing list if you want to use MathML content rendered as SVG images in the output of DITA-OT before we integrate this plugin in Oxygen. The creator of the plugin is Deborah Pickett which is very experienced in using and customizing the DITA-OT: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/ Regards, Sorin Gabrielle Burns wrote:
Does oXygen have plans to incorporate support for MathML in the near future?
We are currently using Oxygen 9.2 to create CHM (HTML Help) and PDF output from the same files, based on DITA. Our source files (XML) currently include over 200 equations. We create the equation files in MathType using its MathML 2.0 translator setting, and save the equation files to GIF. This approach renders a less than aesthetic equation output, either in the CHM or PDF output. We have to apply a scaling attribute to the equation image in the XML file to reduce the large equation sizes in PDF.
If oXygen users have suggestions for rendering equations in CHM and PDF using DITA, these would be welcome. Thank you.
Gabrielle Burns Lead Information Products Developer BRO Software Applications Breault Research Organization, Inc. gburns@breault.com