06-19-2011, 02:27 AM | #16 |
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Is there any reason that SVG couldn't be used for equations? It would seem like an ideal use for it!
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06-19-2011, 06:16 AM | #17 | |
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Latex is nowadays very popular in the sciences, and with the proliferation of WYSIWYG systems (including scientific workplace, that also integrates plot creating engines and actually solves and graphs equations) it is really straightforward to export it as html of xhtml documents with MathML. Creating pdf files is even easier, so at the moment this is what you generally get - for academic papers, books and textbooks, lecture notes, exercise, etc. I would so very much love to be able to produce and consume this kind of material as epub files, and I predict it would catch up very very quickly, at least within the academic community. |
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06-19-2011, 06:37 AM | #18 |
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Nowdays, with tex\latex compilators usually available, Kile, Mktex etc., you can create pdf, ps, dvi, html, and maybe doc files (if i remember correctly). I have never seen a function that allow you compile a document in epub format.
Besides in scientific community a large amount of books are now in Djvu format... and this is the main reason for my choice of a PB e-reader. |
06-19-2011, 08:33 AM | #19 |
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pdf, djvu...
(sigh) Sometimes I *almost* wish SGML hadn't tanked. Almost. Mostly when we need to extract useful data or graphs from a paper or report. Because (of course!) once a paper has been archived to "magical" pdf, there is no need to keep the original source. Hopefully epub3 will allow extracting an editable document, as the current spec does. It may not be ideal or as useful as the original source document but at least it'll be better than printing-scanning-ocr'ing a pdf... PDFs can't die fast enough to suit me. |
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