Re: [EP-underground] The mudtrack ahead

What we currently have is an optional latex formula renderer which
can be used to render the abstract & title channels. It scans them
for anything which looks like latex ($...$ etc.) and replaces it
with an image of the rendered version of the formula.

It's important to differentiate between exporting the metadata and
the documents. 

Can you walk me through it slower. 

* What metadata do you want a user to submit? 
* How would this be stored in the system?
* How would you want it output?

On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 11:56:20AM +0100, Jonathan Flynn wrote:
> Dear Chris et al
> 
> You asked:
> > So what next for eprints?
> 
> >  * BibTex (or other format) export. This could be handy if you use bibtex as
> >       part of latex. Most people probably won't care, but those that do will
> >       really care.
> >
> >  * BibTex (or other metadata format) importer. This would be a big "textarea"
> >       box which you cut'n'paste a bibtex record into and it does it's best to
> >       start filling out the metadata for a record based on that.
> 
> I haven't used eprints yet, but intend to. I would definitely appreciate
> BibTeX import/export --- and others, latex, mathml,...
> 
> A related issue is dealing with mathematical notation in eprint fields.
> How do you deal with this now? My ideal would be a system where users
> could enter info using tex, latex, pasted-in snippets of mathml, etc, etc,
> and could ask for output in these formats too.
> 
> Jonathan Flynn
> 
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