On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:43:59PM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > Groff can produce decent HTML, but you have to work with it. > > You might try Eric's DocLifter for that. Since it works on the > high-level side (this is, parsing the input file and not the > intermediate output) and can handle most of the standard macro > packages, chances are good that the HTML output is better than groff's > grohtml. > > > I remember ESR saying he was working on a patch to eqn that would > > output MathML, but I have no clue whether there's any plug-ins or > > converters to get MathML into Word either. > > MathML support has been added to eqn in the CVS. It looks very nice > and seems to be complete -- the necessary changes were suprisingly > small! Eric noted that the MathML structure is almost identical to > the internal representation of formulae within eqn. He thinks that > this is more than a coincidence... > > Tests are highly welcome. > I'd like to do that (actually I'm in the final phase of a manuscript, where I;ll soon face again the problem how to submit the equation stuff).
but for the dummies like me who are not using cvs regularly: the home page states that one can download a development snapshot (i.e. bypassing direct `cvs' use). I tried this but ended up with an empty tar archive (not surprisingly,looking at the stated size in `.../groff/devel'). question: what am I doing wrong _this_ time? thanks, joerg