Re: RASH version 0.5: less roles, LaTeX formulas, and ROCS

You could simplify the <pre><code> examples by doing
<pre><code><![CDATA[<define ... define>]]></code></pre> and avoid
escaping the source code.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Silvio Peroni <silvio.peroni@unibo.it> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm pleased to announce the new version (0.5) of RASH, the Research Articles
> in Simplified HTML format, and of all the tools included in the RASH
> Framework, available at
>
> https://github.com/essepuntato/rash
>
> RASH is a markup language that restricts the use of HTML elements to only 32
> elements for writing academic research articles. It is possible to include
> also RDF statements as RDFa annotations and/or as Turtle, JSON-LD and
> RDF/XML triples by using the tag "script". The RASH documentation is
> available online [1] and documents RASH version 0.5, defined as a RelaxNG
> grammar [2].
>
> These are the new features that RASH 0.5 implements:
>
> - the elements "i" and "b" have been replaced by "em" and "strong"
> respectively (thanks Ruben Verborgh for this);
>
> - the non-standard roles specifiable for the element "figure", i.e.,
> "figurebox", "tablebox", "listingbox", and "formulabox", have been removed,
> while their correct visualisation and conversion is still guaranteed by
> looking at the actual elements such element "figure" contains;
>
> - all the roles for internal references (i.e., "ref", "doc-noteref", and
> "doc-biblioref") have been removed and substituted by using an empty element
> "a" linking to the element one wants to refer to (e.g., a section, a figure,
> a footnote, a bibliographic reference);
>
> - the element "img" can have the role "math" specified if it actually
> represents a mathematical formula;
>
> - the element "span", with the attribute "role" set to "math", can be used
> to include LaTeX formulas within a RASH document;
>
> - added the support for MathJax so as to render correctly both LaTeX and
> MathML formulas in all browsers;
>
> - added the support for SVG (element "svg") for specifying images.
>
> Among the tools of the RASH Framework [3], with the release of this new
> version we have also made available the RASH Online Conversion Service
> (ROCS) [4,5], i.e., a Python web application based on web.py that allows one
> to convert an ODT document written according to simple guidelines [6] into
> RASH, and from RASH documents into LaTeX ones compliant with the Springer
> LNCS LaTeX class and ACM ICPS class. An online version of ROCS is also
> available at
>
> http://dasplab.cs.unibo.it/rocs
>
> A brief description of the whole RASH Framework has been presented during
> the poster and demo session of ISWC 2015 (http://iswc2015.semanticweb.org/),
> and the related article is freely available in RASH and PDF [7]. It is worth
> mentioning that RASH has been already proposed as one of the possible
> formats for HTML submissions in several academic events, listed in [8].
>
> I'm looking forward to having your comments about RASH and its Framework
> and, in case you are already an earlier adopter of it, please feel free to
> participate in a 10 minutes survey about the use of RASH for writing
> academic papers, available at http://esurv.org/?u=rash-format.
>
> Of course, this work could not be possible without the support and help of
> great people [9] who implemented several aspects of the RASH Framework. We,
> as developers, would also like to thank all the early adopters of RASH, and
> Ivan Herman who constructively provided new and effective insights into the
> RASH specification and who suggested several additions that have been
> implemented in the current version.
>
> Please don't hesitate to contact me (email: essepuntato@gmail.com) for
> comments, suggestions, and further questions.
>
> Have a nice day :-)
>
> S.
>
>
> # References
>
> 1. https://rawgit.com/essepuntato/rash/master/documentation/index.html
> 2. https://rawgit.com/essepuntato/rash/master/grammar/rash.rng
> 3. https://github.com/essepuntato/rash/blob/master/tools/
> 4. https://github.com/essepuntato/rash/blob/master/tools/rocs/
> 5. Di Iorio, A., Gonzalez-Beltran, A. G., Osborne, F., Peroni, S., Poggi,
> F., Vitali, F. (2016). It ROCS! The RASH Online Conversion Service. To
> appear in the Companion Volume of the Proceedings of the 25th International
> World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2016).
> https://rawgit.com/essepuntato/rash/master/papers/rash-poster-www2016.html
> 6. https://rawgit.com/essepuntato/rash/master/documentation/rash-in-odt.odt
> 7. Di Iorio, A., Nuzzolese, A. G., Osborne, F., Peroni, S., Poggi, F.,
> Smith, M., Vitali, F. Zhao, J. (2015). The RASH Framework: enabling HTML+RDF
> submissions in scholarly venues. In Proceedings of the poster and demo
> session of the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015).
> https://rawgit.com/essepuntato/rash/master/papers/rash-demo-iswc2015.html
> 8.
> https://github.com/essepuntato/rash/#venues-that-have-adopted-rash-as-submission-format
> 9. https://github.com/essepuntato/rash/graphs/contributors
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Silvio Peroni, Ph.D.
> Department of Computer Science and Engineering
> University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)
> Tel: +39 051 2094871
> E-mail: silvio.peroni@unibo.it
> Web: http://www.essepuntato.it
> Twitter: essepuntato
>

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