5. Treffen der transpect User Group

Leipzig, 16.9.2022

Agenda

Open Source Software

• Wednesday’s bug report by Peppo Bonelli

• Another user of the open source transpect libraries: Antenna House

  …and their bug reports: 1, 2

• 9.8k downloads of docx2tex

  …resulting in more bug reports and feature requests

• Why are we giving these freeloaders support for free?

• Because they help us improve the product for our paying customers and for us

  …most of the time

transpect control: svn

• Background: svn, our “CMS for the poor” (and mostly for books)
• Drawbacks:
  1. hard to archive a single work, to purge its history, and to reclaim the space
  2. complicated tools, hardly integrated in workflows

Addressing item 1 (one repo per work, mounted into the content hierarchy by means of “svn externals”) leads to even more complicated management.

We want to keep svn, but put a nice GUI on top of it.

A GUI that supports transpect’s conversion workflows and content organization.

transpect control: GUI

Operations such as:

• create new repo for a work and attach it to its series in the hierarchy
• move, rename, and archive a work repo

But also:

• full-text search
• combinable XPath search of the XML content
• search for works that use specific InDesign styles
• search for per-work overrides (CSS, XSLT, …)

Perspectively: Launch conversions, ingest the results into svn

transpect control: Demo

@ Hogrefe

Math on the Web: Firefox native pre-2022

(taken from ISO 10110-12:2007 + ISO 10110-12 AMD 1:2013)

Math on the Web: Firefox native 2022

MathML 4 Core removed mfenced, and Firefox implemented that already

Math on the Web: MathJax

pro: easy to enable, some accessibility support; contra: quite slow, no breaks within inline equations

Math on the Web: KaTeX

pro: faster, seamless fonts; contra: more setup effort

Math on the Web: Chrome