Generating MathML and Other ...ML from Omega

Generating MathML and Other ...ML from

$\Omega$

John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous
The University of New South Wales and Atelier Fluxus Virus

Abstract

The $\Omega$ typesetting system, a generalization of TeX for fine typography of numerous writing systems, is now capable of generating SGML files from TeX and $\Omega$ files. Mathematics can be automatically translated into MathML, and a redefinition of the TeX, LaTeX, and AMS-LaTeX macros allows the generation of any SGML tags, thereby greatly facilitating the work of the author.

In the TeX community, it is widely recognized that the TeX system is a useful tool for printing documents encoded in SGML or XML. We claim that the inverse also holds: the $\Omega$ system is the best tool for generating SGML documents including MathML.

This system consists of three levels.

New primitives allowing one to define the SGML entities that can be found in fonts used by $\Omega$
Modification to the $\Omega$ engine allowing the automatic generation of MathML from mathematics written in the TeX or LaTeX language, as well as of SGML tables from tables written in TeX or LaTeX
New macro primitives allowing one to generate SGML tags

In the full paper and presentation, we will give a detailed presentation of the MathML translator and the way in which it can be used to produce complete XML documents.