Re: behavior of @math with HTML output

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2022-10-14 21:11:19 -0500, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
>   
> > Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> >     
> > > On 2022-10-14 07:06:03 +0100, Gavin Smith wrote:
> > >       
> > > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 12:40:08AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > >         
> > > > >   * mathjax is not compatible with text browsers.
> > > > >           
> > > > Not a bug, working as designed.
> > > >         
> > > Also broken design as there is no correct fallback for text browsers.
> > >
> > > This is an important point for developers, in particular because
> > > manuals may be on a remote machine accessed via ssh.
> > >       
> > Arguably, this (having only a text terminal for reading the manual)
> > is the use case for Info.
> >     
>
> The user may want to choose the HTML version for various reasons.
>   * Is there a way to follow web links (those declared with @url)
>     with Info?
>   
For the case of a remote session, this is easy:  select and paste the 
URL into a local browser.
>   * Is there a way to open different tabs with the Info reader?
>     (FYI, w3m can, using the HTML version.)
>   * Web browsers typically have bookmarks. This doesn't seem to be
>     the case with the Info reader.

These do seem to be limitations of the current implementation.


-- Jacob