[OS X TeX] LaTeX conversion to eBook?

William Adams will.adams at frycomm.com
Thu Apr 26 07:39:46 EDT 2012


On Apr 25, 2012, at 11:35 PM, Themis Matsoukas wrote:

> Unbelievable, but true... It seems only MathType will work with iBookAuthor. 

which unfortunately, still circles around to my points:

> ... the problem is one loses all the semantics and much of the expressiveness of the equation:
> 
> - it can't be broken if the text width is narrow and it falls near the margin
> - unless one makes it as an SVG enlarging or reducing it is ugly
> - it won't work for speech recognition, so isn't helpful for visually-impaired users
> - it's not text, so it can't be copied or pasted for use in a student's notes
> - it can't be made use of in a computer algebra system w/o re-keying

William

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