ETD Guide/Students/In LaTeX  From Wikibooks, open books for an
open world Jump to: navigation, search  The Problem[edit]  If
ETDs should be archived for he next 20-50 years and still be
readable and usable, it in necessary, that equally to the
approach for MS Word, we use predefined style sheets for LaTeX.
Only by standardising the usage of Latex, a quick and
sustainable solution for a conversion into XML can be designed.
As LaTeX is mostly used within the natural sciences and
mathematics, the encoding of complex mathematical symbols,
formulas and expressions is one of the major problems for such a
conversion. As there are XML document type definitions or
schematics for mathematics, MathML (see ) and most math
software, like Maple, Mathematica, etc. supports an export into
MathML, this standards has to be used as an output from LaTeX as
well.  The LaTeX format should enable an easier conversion to
XML, because of its structured approach to text processing. But
the usage habits of LaTeX users, which tend to pr