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Heh, I've never seriously tried to use MathML before. On the plus side,
it does solve the problem I had (i.e., various math symbols have Unicode
codepoints, but don't exist in any known typeface). On the other hand...
it's a tad verbose.
With TeX, if you want to write "x" as a mathematical variable rather
than a piece of text, you simply say "$x$". But by the power of MathML,
if you want to do this in DocBook, you write
<inlineequation>
<math xmlns="http://www.w3c.org/1998/Math/MathML">
<mrow><mi>x</mi></mrow>
</math>
<inlineequation>
which is somewhat more typing. There's probably some trick that removes
the need to keep typing in the XML namespace URL every time, but even
then you'd still have
<inlineequation><math><mrow><mi>x</mi></mrow></math><inlineequation>
which is a lot of typing considering that only one single character of
that will appear in the final output.
Now I see why people like to use specialised editors to write this
stuff. ;-) Typing HTML by hand is trivial, but this stuff is just
mental. (!)
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