i've had a positive experience with mathjax even on a mobile device / smart
phone. and being able to copy paste math is a HUGE thing for me.
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Michael Orlitzky
On 01/08/2014 12:23 PM, Ben Foppa wrote:
I tend to opt for writing plaintext LaTeX, and if the reader wants it to be pretty, they can use TeX the World (although it looks like this is now unmaintained and only viable in chrome).
The Sage project[1] has to solve a similar problem with its python reference documentation for various mathy things. These days MathJax is used, but in my opinion the previous solution was better. While the HTML documentation was being generated from RST, various magics were employed to convert the embedded formulas to PNGs which were then inserted directly into the markup. Haddock could probably be convinced to do the same.
The downside to images is that they don't scale, but they do have the alt attribute as a plain-text fallback. The problem with MathJax is that it takes forever to load and slows the browser to a crawl -- especially annoying when you know what you're looking for and can't scroll to it because the document keeps jumping around as formulas load for 30 seconds. Images load instantly and look good enough.
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