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Originally Posted by HarryT
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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yes of course it could, but I find it painfully slow: each equation must become a picture to import in your document, and if you have a lot of formulas and symbols it becomes a nightmare.
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.