Re: Faulty SVG width in default HTML export style

[Rudolf Adamkovič]

Yuchen Guo <Guoyuc@students.uni-marburg.de> writes:

Hi Yuchen!

> I think we can solve this issue by looking at how Wikipedia does the
> alignment of text and LaTeX snippets.  [...] The alignment parameters
> are also dependent on the snippet itself.

Good idea!

> For me, Emacs using MathJax as default came across as an unpleasant
> surprise: any person aware of the free/libre software movement knows
> that one should never allow Javascript to run in their browser: (ref
> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html ).
>
> MathJax is not even compatible with LibreJS and loads script from
> a bunch of 3rd-party servers like Cloudflare.  This enables those 3rd
> parties to track visitors to your website.

How did that get through the FSF/RMS strict ethical requirements for
Emacs?  As soon as the user adds a simple "$1 + 1 = 2$" to their Org
document, the HTML export from Emacs/Org becomes quietly tracked by an
American company.  Emacs should never do that, IMO.

[I decided to CC RMS on this issue.]

(On a related note, the Emacs/Org manual mentions, "if you are following
a system like David Allen's GTD", implicitly promoting a book that the
publisher distributes just with mandatory DRM [1].)

[1] https://orgmode.org/manual/Stuck-projects.html

Agreed 100 percent with everything else you said.  Further, in addition
to the ethical issues, MathJax also makes the website render slower.
With SVG, mathematics appears instantly, like on Wikipedia.

> Unrelated but I think its best to not use Apple dis-services: [...]

Definitely, and thank you for the reminder.  The address dates back to
when I still used Apple services.  These days, I do not use them for
personal purposes anymore, except for their IMAP server to fetch the
messages.  That said, I do plan to address the issue for sure.

Rudy
-- 
"Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies."
-- Richard Buckminster Fuller, 1969

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