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sroth

Installing and using ASCIIMATH

Hi,

there are many Diskussions and posts about mathematical formulas used with asciidoctor-pdf, but not one complete discription of installing and using it or any other tool.

I read much, tested all i found but nothing really usable.
Please, anyone who is ready to discribe the way to use ist?

In AsciidocFX the formulas are shown, but asciidoctor-pdf does not render it.
It wold be very kind to get some help here.

Regards
Sven

Alexander Schwartz

Re: Installing and using ASCIIMATH

I've never tries to add math to asciidoctor-pdf. But out of curiosity I've tried to add math to its JavaScript companion asciidoctor-pdf.js that is available as an experimental alpha release.

TL;DR: it works with a custom template, but as it is a experimental/alpha you might miss other Asciidoctor features that you might need for your document.

You can follow up on the discussion here: https://github.com/Mogztter/asciidoctor-pdf.js/issues/64

Alexander Schwartz (alexander.schwartz@gmx.net)
https://www.ahus1.de

mojavelinux

Re: Installing and using ASCIIMATH

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Sven,

The Asciidoctor PDF docs addresses this subject.

https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-pdf#stem-support

You'll need to use asciidoctor-mathematical. Keep in mind, though, that it's limited to latexmath. It does not include support for asciimath.

I'll be frank that asciidoctor-mathematical can be a challenge to install on some platforms, but once installed, it does the trick.

As Alex said, the emerging solution for PDF generation is asciidoctor-pdf.js.

Best,

-Dan

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 3:23 AM sroth [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

there are many Diskussions and posts about mathematical formulas used with asciidoctor-pdf, but not one complete discription of installing and using it or any other tool.

I read much, tested all i found but nothing really usable.
Please, anyone who is ready to discribe the way to use ist?

In AsciidocFX the formulas are shown, but asciidoctor-pdf does not render it.
It wold be very kind to get some help here.

Regards
Sven

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sroth

Re: Installing and using ASCIIMATH

Hi Mojavelinux,

sorry, but it doesn't work!
Installed MSYS2, then gem install asciidoctor-mathematical, doesn't Work, Installed ridk install,
then agiain gem install asciidoctor-mathematical without error.

asciidoctor-pdf -r asciidoctor-mathematical -o formeltest.pdf formeltest.adoc
gives the error:
asciidoctor: FAILED: 'asciidoctor-mathematical' could not be loaded
Use --trace for backtrace

sroth

Re: Installing and using ASCIIMATH

And why is asciidocFX partial working?
Just when i only install AsciidocFX?

mojavelinux

Re: Installing and using ASCIIMATH

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Sven,

Your issue seems to be with asciidoctor-mathematical. If you add the --trace flag as suggested, you may discover the underlying reason. Likely there's a runtime error being reported when loading the asciidoctor-mathematical gem. (Either that, or it's just not finding it on the system, which would indicate a installation path problem).

AsciidocFX use its own stack and is likely setting up the conversion in a different way. So its an apples and oranges comparisons. There are many paths to go from AsciiDoc to the converted output.

Best,

-Dan

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 4:37 AM sroth [via Asciidoctor :: Discussion] <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Mojavelinux,

sorry, but it doesn't work!
Installed MSYS2, then gem install asciidoctor-mathematical, doesn't Work, Installed ridk install,
then agiain gem install asciidoctor-mathematical without error.

asciidoctor-pdf -r asciidoctor-mathematical -o formeltest.pdf formeltest.adoc
gives the error:
asciidoctor: FAILED: 'asciidoctor-mathematical' could not be loaded
Use --trace for backtrace

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