William F Hammond wrote:
I've uploaded version 0.8.3 (23 Oct 06) of the GELLMU tarball to ftp.tex.ac.uk.
GELLMU stands for Generalized Extensible LaTeX-Like MarkUp.
The package includes software for an XML document type (which may be written in LaTeX-like markup) that emulates much of LaTeX article while admitting robust translation to XHTML+MathML.
I suggest that it be placed in support/gellmu.
License: GPL
This supersedes version 0.8.2.3 (25 May 06).
It contains an important change for generating XHTML+MathML content that has been made necessary by a mid-September (2006) revision in Firefox and other Mozilla browsers.
CHANGES IN GELLMU, VERSION 0.8.3 (23 Oct 2006)
IMPORTANT change necessitated by change in Firefox and other Mozilla browsers:
This update is mandatory for those who wish their XHTML+MathML outputs to function properly in Mozilla. Because of a mid-September 2006 change in Mozilla with the handling of equations and arrays of equations, previously generated XHTML+MathML outputs will need to be rebuilt.
This release also has reduced use of XML namespace switching in the XHTML+MathML outputs for the sake of greater compatibilty with browsers that do not recognize it.
The XML side door:
The largest change in this update release concerns Regular GELLMU (the didactic production system described in the GELLMU Manual). The standard translation pipeline leading from LaTeX-like source through SGML and XML document types to (1) LaTeX source (hence DVI and PDF outputs), (2) classical HTML output with pseudo-TeX math, and (3) XHTML with MathML output has been modified to capture along the way a variant of the XML document type that is reusable as XML source. Subsequent pipeline processing proceeds from that point with end results equivalent to those in earlier releases.
The new variant of the XML document type may be regarded as a full-featured author level XML document type. It is usable and modifiable by authors who choose to write XML syntax rather than the LaTeX-like equivalent.
The new author level variant of the XML document type is a suitable target for translation from other XML document types, and therefore, could provide an alternative way to format other document types for PDF, HTML, and XHTML+MathML.
Beyond that document instances under the new author level variant of the XML document type should usually be stand-alone instances that are suitable for semi-formatted viewing through the web with CSS styling. They cannot be fully formatted because, for example, numbering has not been inserted, and cross-references have not been resolved.
A consequence of having the XML side door is that the automatically formatted LaTeX files will tend to have very long lines.
Driver Scripts:
For the regular GELLMU main track use the driver script mmkg to build from regular GELLMU source. One should use the new driver script mmkgfromx to build from XML source under the document type defined in the DTD file xml/axgellmu.dtd. (This DTD file lives under the UTF-8 text encoding though presently only one little-used element name is non-ASCII, and that name admits Latin-1 representation.)
Windows XP Support:
In the case of a recently acquired (August 2006) ``notebook'' class computer with ``Windows XP, Home Edition'', it was found after (1) installing Cygwin, (2) then installing Cygwin packages for GNU Emacs, Perl, Tcsh, TeX and LaTeX, OpenSP/OpenJade, and Expat (for the important and basic xmlwf utility), and (3) making sure that all of the appropriate executables are in one's command path (within Cygwin), that the GELLMU tarball drops easily into /usr/local/gellmu (Cygwin filesystem hierarchy), and the Linux driver scripts may be used.
i have indeed placed the new version in support/gellmu; thanks for the upload.
users who want to view the package, or to download it, may do so via the catalogue entry
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/gellmu.html
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team