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From: Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu>
To: "Jan Böcker" <jan.boecker@jboecker.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: mathjax HTML export question
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:42:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C740480.4010404@ccbr.umn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C740372.6020400@jboecker.de>



Jan Böcker wrote:
> On 08/23/2010 08:12 PM, Erik Iverson wrote:
> 
>> Is there something that I'm missing, or that could be "better" with
>> a local installation of MathJax?  I don't know what "reverts to image
>> fonts in Firefox" means, but whatever is happening on my export seems
>> to look nice.
> 
> Hi Erik,
> 
> when MathJax cannot use its custom math fonts, it replaces each
> character with a pre-rendered image (I think it has each character
> available in a handful of different sizes).
> 
> At normal font sizes, the disadvantages of image fonts are not that
> noticeable to me (except that math symbols in links appear black instead
> of blue, because the images are only available in black).
> 
> The main disadvantage is that font quality degrades when you zoom in. I
> have not tested if one can notice a difference when printing
> (theoretically, real fonts will look better, because the printer has a
> higher resolution).

Thank you for the explanation.  By comparing with the demos on
mathjax.org, I am indeed able to see what is meant by image fonts.

I was able to use the 'real' fonts by installing a local copy
of MathJax as the MathJax FAQ indicates.

> 
> In the context of Static MathJax, the disadvantage is that the script
> cannot embed image fonts into HTML files, which is why I mentioned this
> in my email.

I have not tried out static mathjax, but it looks interesting!

Thanks again!

> 
> The change to .htaccess had certainly not happened when I announced
> Static MathJax, as I used the installation at orgmode.org for testing.
> 
> Best regards,
>   Jan

     prev parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-24 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-23 18:12 mathjax HTML export question Erik Iverson
2010-08-24 17:37 ` Jan Böcker
2010-08-24 17:42   ` Erik Iverson [this message]

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