From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "Jan Böcker" <jan.boecker@jboecker.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: MathJax is now the default for HTML math
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:59:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E72DDFA9-0CE0-405F-98F4-7FC976AEAB13@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C66F076.10505@jboecker.de>
On Aug 14, 2010, at 9:37 PM, Jan Böcker wrote:
> On 08/14/2010 08:09 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> From now on, the default settings will
>> use the incredible MathJax library to display math in
>> exported HTML. If you had never turned on LaTeX snipped
>> math publishing, this will now magically work all by itself.
>
> Yes, indeed it does!
>
> Since I read the announcement this morning, I have been playing with
> MathJax. I found that when an HTML file on the local hard disk uses
> MathJax from the web, MathJax reverts to image fonts in Firefox
> (this is
> caused by a security feature of Firefox and mentioned in the MathJax
> FAQ). Using a local MathJax installation in a subdirectory fixes this.
>
> Most of my time was spent messing around with XULRunner to load the
> exported HTML page, wait until MathJax has done its magic, then
> serialize the result back to XHTML.
Hi Jan,
can you expand a bit on why this is interesting to do? What are the
advantages?
Thanks!
- Carsten
>
> And replace the file:// URLs pointing to the fonts of my local MathJax
> installation with data: URIs, thus embedding the fonts within the HTML
> file itself, just because I can.
>
> The result is a single HTML file which does not require JavaScript
> to be
> viewed (and incurs no delay while the math is being rendered).
> However,
> as no MathJax code is present, the zoom and view source functions of
> MathJax are not available.
>
> I have put an example online.
>
> Normal org-mode export using MathJax from orgmode.org:
> http://www.jboecker.de/2010/08/14/mathjax-example.html
>
> Single-file no-javascript version:
> http://www.jboecker.de/2010/08/14/mathjax-example-nojs.html
>
> Internet Explorer will not use the correct font, AFAIK because it only
> supports the EOT fonts (MathJax uses OTF for other browsers), and in
> this case also because I embedded the fonts using data: URIs and IE
> limits the size of data: URIs to 32 KB.
>
> In browsers other than Firefox (I tested with Firefox and Opera), the
> font size and spacing will differ slightly between the two versions.
>
> If people are interested, I can try to make the program take the
> name of
> a file to operate on as a command line argument, so this could be
> run as
> part of an org-mode export process or something. Of course, the
> embedding of fonts in data: URIs would be optional.
>
>> I am really, really excited about this change. Using MathJax makes
>> Org-mode
>> a tool without peer for scientific note taking, I believe. It will
>> also drastically improve the quality of printed web pages, because
>> the web pages will not use fixed-resolution images, but scaleable
>> fonts.
>
> And don't forget that on modern high resolution displays, it is common
> to zoom in just to be able to decipher math in images, especially if
> you
> want sub- and superscripts to be legible.
>
> -- Jan
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-14 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-14 6:09 MathJax is now the default for HTML math Carsten Dominik
2010-08-14 19:37 ` Jan Böcker
2010-08-14 20:39 ` Detlef Steuer
2010-08-14 20:59 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-08-14 22:16 ` Jan Böcker
2010-08-15 7:25 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-15 13:24 ` Jan Böcker
2010-08-16 8:59 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-16 10:05 ` Detlef Steuer
2010-08-16 17:55 ` Bastien
2010-08-16 10:09 ` Jan Böcker
2010-08-16 10:33 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-17 10:44 ` Jan Böcker
2010-08-17 11:01 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-17 15:17 ` Jan Böcker
2010-08-20 16:14 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-09-03 3:07 ` sand
2010-09-03 15:53 ` Embedding images as data: URIs in the HTML exporter (was: MathJax is now the default for HTML math) Jan Böcker
2010-09-26 18:51 ` David Maus
2010-08-16 17:50 ` MathJax is now the default for HTML math Bastien
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