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[Axiom-developer] [#210 Pamphlet support on MathAction] Math on the web
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[Axiom-developer] [#210 Pamphlet support on MathAction] Math on the web |
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Fri, 07 Oct 2005 12:45:30 -0500 |
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This is impossible for me to view.
Acroread on linux has serious stability issues and consistently crashes my
browser or forcibly grabs my mouse and won't let go. All open-source pdf
viewers (xpdf, gpdf, etc) have inferior font rendering and often cannot
anti-alias the fonts.
The net result is that any user has to jump through a ton of hoops just to look
at these pamphlet pages, and in the end, they're bypassing the chosen medium
(the web) altogether!
While the rendering quality of the latexwiki-image or mathml is currently
inferior, I don't think jumping through all these hoops is worth the small
increase in rendering quality. Instead, I think we should use the technologies
built into the browser already (images/mathml) and push the browser developers
to improve their rendering quality.
For instance, the mozilla people have just checked in a "patch which improves
printing of transparent
png's":https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141656. Previously they
printed black-on-black and were unreadable. Another recently checked-in patch
"properly aligns equations that are generated by
latex2html":https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192077.
Undoubtedly, we will encounter many bugs in the rendering of mathml. But, I
think pushing forward with "math on the web" is a desirable goal, and
sidestepping the problem by embedding pdf will hurt rather than help the whole
situation. It seems to me the natural migration route is send images for old
browsers, mathml for new browsers, and report bugs against the browsers when
this falls down.
I know current pamphlets are a latex format, but the subset of latex actually
used is quite small. There are two ways to go here...1) write a zwiki
"pagetype" which renders the subset, or 2) call latex2html or tth (or some
other tool) on the backend to render as html with embedded images or mathml.
Unfortunately I am quite busy and won't be able to work on this any time soon.
:(
Just my 2 cents.
-- Bob
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