I did not say that we should be limited by the straightjacket of LaTeX. Thus, I accept that, if I decide for whatever reasons to use LaTeX, I might have to put some constraints on the DocBook (table) markup I can enter. Of course, son/daughter of TeX (Omega, NTS, TeX++) will give me all the tools to achieve what I need, one day...

DC promised to have a look at it a few weeks back... I agree that for a general DTD writing the TeX macro code necessary to support it might not be a good investment. Yet for the presentation markup part of MathML, I still feel that such work would be useful, since it could be used together with any DTD (even TEI), since the MathML vocabulary is quite orthogonal to that of hierarchical DTDs.

That's what the db of db2latex stands for, docbook :+}...

More seriously, the Math part of the XSLT stylesheets would be more generic (since orthogonal). We would have to write templates for handling all presentation markup MathML constructs in XSLT, which and this is probably not so easy as to parse it with xmltex. I really do not have a ready-made answer. Trying my hand at both approaches, I admit that I found problems with both methods for math of medium complexity.

Yes, but I want to typeset DocBook (TEI, eBook,...) documents containing Math today, not in three years. m