Hi Brian, McGuinness, Brian wrote on Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 07:15:21PM -0500:
> I was experimenting with eqn because I think it > will prove very useful for generating MathML > code easily. Groff is certainly a good choice for processing eqn(1) input, in particular when aiming for typeset output, for example PostScript or PDF. I haven't experimented with GNU eqn MathML output, though. For converting eqn input to MathML output, you might also wish to look at mandoc as an alternative: http://mdocml.bsd.lv/ It may or may not be sufficient or better for your purpose, and i would be interested in any feedback. One thing that may or may not be relevant for your use case is speed. Here are example numbers from my OpenBSD-current system: $ cd /usr/X11R6/man/man3/ $ time eqn -TMathML glMultMatrix.3 | groff -man -Txhtml > /dev/null 2>&1 0m17.67s real 0m15.92s user 0m01.45s system $ time mandoc -Thtml glMultMatrix.3 > /dev/null 0m00.00s real 0m00.01s user 0m00.00s system $ time sh -c 'for f in `jot 1000`; do mandoc -Thtml glMultMatrix.3 \ > /dev/null; done' 0m07.25s real 0m02.83s user 0m03.33s system Mandoc does HTML5 and MathML by default and does not need any options or preprocessors. Being faster by a factor of more than 2000 (two thousand) may be relevant for some applications. Yours, Ingo
