on the Curl Web Content Markup Language

on the Curl Web Content Markup and Programming Language from www.curl.com and www.curlap.com
Showing posts with label e-textbook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label e-textbook. Show all posts

Saturday, January 21, 2012

iBook Author Tool

Here are recent comments from the Apple page on the iBook Author tool:

Customer Reviews
No mathematical notation support
     by D. Ernst
This would be great if there was (1) reasonable support for mathematical notation and (2) a way to import LaTeX documents (the standard for typesetting mathematics). Until that happens, mathematically heavy texts are a no go.
And

No way to note "references"
     by Conrad Fischer
There is no way to note "references" or "endnotes". How do you write a textbook without having references?
But I did not validate either.

I link to this post over at the global Curl community.